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In the summer of 1983, twentyyearold nick guest moves into an attic room in the notting hill home of. Oct 01, 2004 britisher hollinghurst the spell, 1998, etc. The line of beauty, winner of the 2004 man booker prize and a finalist for the national book critics circle award. He has written a collection of poems confidential chats with boys, 1982, edited three novels by ronald firbank 2000, prepared a selection of a. Oct 09, 2015 the next installment in the series comes from alan hollinghurst, the british writer who won the man booker prize for the line of beauty in 2004. Alan hollinghurst, the gay novel, and british reticence. The first edition of the novel was published in 1978, and was written by maeve binchy. In his fourth novel, the line of beauty, due in april from picador, hollinghurst picks up the story of nick, the promiscuous aristo. Alan hollinghurst is an english novelist and winner of the 2004 booker prize for the line of beauty set in the united kingdom in the early to mid1980s, the story encompasses the postoxford life of the young gay protagonist, nick guest, who searches for beauty in everything around him while being less than perfect himself. At 400plus pages sprinkled with references to henry james, his fourth outing aspires to the status of an epic about sex, politics, money, and high society. Jan 22, 2015 alan hollinghurst is one of the british novels most admired stylists. Sep 06, 2016 nick is a pretentious aesthete whos pursuit of beauty is itself sordid.
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