The Line of Beauty

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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE 2004 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION, AND NATIONAL BOOKCRITICS CIRCLEAWARD FINALIST ANew York TimesBestseller (Extended) ALA TimesBestseller List A Book Sense National Bestseller A Northern California Bestseller ASunday TimesBestseller List ANew York TimesNotable Book of the Year And chosen as one of the best books of 2004 by: Entertainment Weekly TheWashingtonPostTheSan FranciscoChronicleTheSeattleTimes Newsday Salon.comTheBostonGlobeTheNew YorkSunTheMiamiHerald TheDallasMorning NewsSan JoseMercury NewsPublishers Weekly Alan Hollinghurstis the author ofThe Swimming-Pool Library, The Spell,andThe Folding Star.He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He lives in London. Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction ANew York TimesNotable Book It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved 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, who becomes both a friend to Nick and his uneasy responsibility. As the boom years of the mid-eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in matter of politics and money, becomes caught up in the Feddens' world--its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. In an era of endless possibility, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession with beauty--a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. An affair with a young black clerk gives him his first experience of romance, but it is a later affair with a beautiful millionaire that will change his life more drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade. Framed by the two election that returned Margaret Thatcher to power,The Line of Beautyunfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, this is a major work by one of our finest writers. Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction ANew York TimesNotable Book of 2004 "A magnificent comedy of manners. Hollinghurst's alertness to the tiniest social and tonal shifts never slackens, and positively luxuriates in a number of unimprovably droll set pieces . . . [an] outstanding novel."--New York Times Book Review "A magnificent comedy of manners. Hollinghurst's alertness to the tiniest social and tonal shifts never slackens, and positively luxuriates in a number of unimprovably droll set pieces . . . [an] outstanding novel."--New York Times Book Review "His most tender and powerful novel to date, a sprawling and haunting elegy to the 1980s."--Entertainment Weekl

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