
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
Taste attributes: dramagay/lesbianpoliticalslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticlinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipsocial commentaryself destruction/implosion
Boxlist takeA contained novel that is heavy, emotional and unsavoury. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: very confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.8 / 5
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About This Book
It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby--whom Nick had idolized at Oxford--and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions, who becomes both a friend to Nick and his uneasy responsibility.
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- Author
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 501
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- Open Library
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