The Line of Beauty
WHAT
THE LINE OF BEAUTY
WHO
ALAN HOLLINGHURST
HOW MUCH
$20
In 2004, TWOTHOUSAND just missed out on winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction. To show that we harbour few, if any, hard feelings, we recommend that you have a glance at the “winner”, THE LINE OF BEAUTY.
Author Alan Hollinghurst is one of the most respected novelists in Britain, and is famous for his level of literary detail and observation (unattainable in the SMS and emoticon world of TWOTHOUSAND). His previous novels THE SWIMMING POOL LIBRARY and THE FOLDING STAR received excellent receptions, but THE LINE OF BEAUTY is his best work.
The story focuses on the awkward but charming Nick, who is staying in the Kensington Gardens house of his university friend Toby, whose father Gerald is a prominent member of Margaret Thatcher's '80s government. Hollinghurst gives insightful accounts of the privileged, toffee lives of the British aristocracy that part of Nick longs to inhabit. But as Nick becomes more involved in this world socially and romantically the un-sustainability of the era becomes heartbreakingly evident.
Format: Book
Motivation: Good with a whiskey in the bath
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