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008			121129s2004 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2004047660
020			_a9781582345086
050	0	0	_aPR6058.O4467 _bL56 2004
082	0	0	_aFIC HOL
100	1		_aHollinghurst, Alan
245	1	4	_aThe line of beauty _b: a novel _c/ Alan Hollinghurst
250			_a1st U.S. ed
260			_aNew York _b: Bloomsbury _c, 2004.
300			_a438 p. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aIn 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.
610	2	0	_aUniversity of Oxford _v--Fiction
650		0	_aMale friendship _x--Fiction
650			_aSocial classes _v-Fiction
650		0	_aMarried people _x--Fiction
650			_aLegislators _v--Fiction
650		0	_aRich people _x--Fiction
650			_aYoung men _v--Fiction
650		0	_aGay men _x--Fiction
651		0	_aNotting Hill (London, England) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aPsychological fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
655		7	_aBildungsromans
942			_cMO
999			_c240613 _d240613