The gay hero, Nick Guest, is on his way to a blind. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man's collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 501pp, Picador, 16.99 A few pages into Alan Hollinghurst's novel, something remarkable happens. 2004, it sealed the arrival in fiction of a retrospective exploration of the. The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. When Alan Hollinghursts The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in October. Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens' world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty. (The Line of Beauty is also, as it happens, a 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel by the British writer Alan Hollinghurst about gay life, class and politics in Thatcherite Britain, but though.
There was the soft glare of the flash - twice - three times - a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, 'Prime Minister, would you like to dance?' In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine. Binding Hardcover Publisher Picador Place of Publication London Date Published 2004 Keywords The Line of Beauty alan hollinghurst booker prize man booker. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain.
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