The Line of Beauty
15 December 2014Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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.
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...
Details
15 December 2014512 pages
9781447275190Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A classic of our times . . . The work of a great English stylist in full maturity. A masterpieceObserver
As good as the English novel gets. Almost every sentence is a thing of beautyThe Sunday Telegraph
There is something memorable on every page . . . there is much to savour in The Line of Beauty, not least its humour, a shivering yet morally exacting satire that leaves no character untouchedThe Times Literary Supplement
Hollinghurst can make language do what he wants . . . It makes a lot of contemporary fiction seem thin and underachieving. A brilliantly comical and accurate satire upon the high noon of Mrs ThatcherEvening Standard
