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The Line of Beauty - A Novel

Alan Hollinghurst

Editora: Bloomsbury USA

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award 
A New York Times Bestseller (Extended)  
An LA Times Bestseller 
A Northern California Bestseller 
A Sunday Times Bestseller  
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 
 
From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. 
 
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves 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, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. 
 
As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black man who works as a clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this is a major work by one of our finest writers.
Disponível desde: 17/12/2009.
Comprimento de impressão: 448 páginas.

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