(Ebook) The Line Of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst ISBN 9781582346106, 1582346100

(Ebook) The Line Of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst ISBN 9781582346106, 1582346100

Alan Hollinghurst portrays a ruthless decade through Nick, an increasingly less innocent abroad, as he gets caught up in the boom years of the 80s.It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children. As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters of politics and money, becomes embroiled in the Feddens’ world, with its grand parties, its holidays in the Dordogne, and its parade of monsters both comic and threatening."As a novelist, Alan Hollinghurst has set himself an intimidating standard. There haven't been many English debuts more exquisitely executed or scorchingly candid than "The Swimming-Pool Library" (1988), nor follow-ups that could outdazzle it as brilliantly as did "The Folding Star" (1994)... Although it gathers ominously in mood, "The Line of Beauty" feels more blissful than baleful in its anatomy of the era... Hollinghurst's alertness to the tiniest social and tonal shifts never slackens, and positively luxuriates in a number of unimprovably droll set pieces... It is highly characteristic of Hollinghurst to oscillate between the high and the low, often within the same paragraph... It is also of a piece with the elegiac close, rendered with a grace and decorum entirely appropriate to this outstanding novel."  -  Anthony Quinn, The New York TimesAlan Hollinghurst is a novelist, poet, short story writer and translator.  He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. The Sparsholt Affair was published in 2017.