The Line of Beauty
Overview
The Line of Beauty is a 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst
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Set in Britain in the early to mid-1980s, the story surrounds the post-Oxford life of the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest.
As the novel begins, Nick moves into the household of the wealthy Fedden family, comprising his friend, crush, and fellow Oxford graduate Toby; Toby's bi-polar sister Catherine; their aristocratic mother, Rachel; and their Thatcher
-obsessed father, Gerald, a newly-elected MP for the Conservative Party.
Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.-Biography:Hollinghurst was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth...
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Set in Britain in the early to mid-1980s, the story surrounds the post-Oxford life of the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest.
As the novel begins, Nick moves into the household of the wealthy Fedden family, comprising his friend, crush, and fellow Oxford graduate Toby; Toby's bi-polar sister Catherine; their aristocratic mother, Rachel; and their Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
-obsessed father, Gerald, a newly-elected MP for the Conservative Party.
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