Ebook {Epub PDF} The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

In Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Line of Beauty, the great tradition of English public, political narrative, as perfected by Trollope, meets the sculpted, poetic and interior narrative as perfected by Henry James. The result is intriguing, like reading gossip in beautifully made sentences with extraordinary insights into motive and nuance. Winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award. From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. In the summer of , twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of Cited by:  · Alan Hollinghurst. 32 books1, followers. Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, and winner of the Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. He read English at Magdalen College, Oxford graduating in ; and subsequently took the further degree of Master of Literature (). While at Oxford he shared a house with Andrew Motion, and was /5.

The Line of Beauty: A Novel - Kindle edition by Hollinghurst, Alan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Line of Beauty: A Novel. Alan Hollinghurst is the author of five novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty and The Stranger's Child. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. He lives in London. THE LINE OF BEAUTY Alan Hollinghurst, Author. Bloomsbury $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Folding Star; The Stranger's Child.

Nevertheless, when I first read Alan Hollinghurst’s seminal novel, The Line of Beauty, it struck a surprisingly resonant chord. The book, winner of the Man Booker prize, tells the story of Nick Guest, a lower-middle class Oxford graduate who moves into a fellow alumnus’ family mansion in Notting Hill in the summer of J o h n M u l l a n. Fri EDT. 2. 2. W hen he came to speak to the Guardian Book Club, Alan Hollinghurst discussed the perception that some people have of The Line of Beauty as a. The Line of Beauty. by Alan Hollinghurst. pp, Picador, £ A few pages into Alan Hollinghurst's novel, something remarkable happens. The gay hero, Nick Guest, is on his way to a blind date.