by Alan Hollinghurst · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433970879
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«La línea de la belleza» is the novel by Alan Hollinghurst, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (584 pages, in Spanish).
A young man from the provinces preparing his thesis on Henry James moves to London to stay with his friend Toby and becomes fascinated by his beauty and by his family's easygoing world. The novel, set in Margaret Thatcher's England of the 1980s, portrays the parties and economic euphoria and the contradictions of class and culture.
This edition belongs to the Panorama de narrativas collection (no. 624) from Anagrama, in a translation by Jaime Zulaika. Winner of the Man Booker Prize.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction interested in period portraits and social criticism.
Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his seven novels since 1988.
