by Alan Hollinghurst · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330483216
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«The Line of Beauty» is the novel by Alan Hollinghurst, published by Picador in paperback (300 pages, in English).
Summer of 1983: Nick Guest moves into the Feddens' attic in Notting Hill, where Gerald, a Conservative MP, his wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine live. Nick, obsessed with beauty and trapped in that world, experiences love affairs that confront him with the social and political tensions of the Thatcher era.
Winner of the 2004 Booker Prize and the Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction; finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction and British narrative interested in 1980s London, social satire, and LGBT themes.
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.
