The line of beauty : a novel
Hollinghurst, Alan
The line of beauty : a novel / Alan Hollinghurst - 1st U.S. ed - New York : Bloomsbury , 2004. - 438 p. ; 25 cm.
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, 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 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.
9781582345086
2004047660
University of Oxford----Fiction
Male friendship----Fiction
Social classes---Fiction
Married people----Fiction
Legislators----Fiction
Rich people----Fiction
Young men----Fiction
Gay men----Fiction
Notting Hill (London, England)----Fiction
Psychological fiction
Domestic fiction
Bildungsromans
PR6058.O4467 / L56 2004
FIC HOL
The line of beauty : a novel / Alan Hollinghurst - 1st U.S. ed - New York : Bloomsbury , 2004. - 438 p. ; 25 cm.
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, 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 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.
9781582345086
2004047660
University of Oxford----Fiction
Male friendship----Fiction
Social classes---Fiction
Married people----Fiction
Legislators----Fiction
Rich people----Fiction
Young men----Fiction
Gay men----Fiction
Notting Hill (London, England)----Fiction
Psychological fiction
Domestic fiction
Bildungsromans
PR6058.O4467 / L56 2004
FIC HOL
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