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The line of beauty by alan hollinghurst, paperback. Internet archive language english first published in the united states by bloomsbury publishing in 2004. I should and have to do what it feels right to do for myself at the moment. Nick guest has moved in with the feddens, a family whose patriarch is a conservative member of parliament. This acclaimed book by alan hollinghurst is available at in several formats for your ereader. Pdf the line of beauty book by alan hollinghurst free. He has received the somerset maugham award, the james tait black memorial prize for fiction and the 2004 man booker prize. Dec 16, 2015 alan hollinghurst won the man booker prize in 2004 for the line of beauty. Thats very important, the king said, turning to the jury. Top ten books alan hollinghurst top ten books hollinghurst came to acclaim with his groundbreaking debut novel, the swimming pool library, in 1988, and went on to win the 2004 man booker prize for the line of beauty, a novel that nailed the crosscurrents of greed, envy, privilege, and sexual desire in 1980s britain. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young mans collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to. In an era of endless possibility, nick finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession, with beauty a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. He ate his salmon and drank his rather sweet hock with an indefinable air of relished routine, an admission of lifelong lunching in boardrooms and country houses and festival restaurants all over europe.
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