That has more interest to me than writing a happy love story…” I think I tended to do that a fair bit actually. Novem“I tend to write about people, who like myself to some degree, are loners by temperament, or live in their own sort of imaginative world. Urn:oclc:815819636 Republisher_date 20151021081412 Republisher_operator Scandate 20151020060321 Scanner Hollinghurst: Beauty, Love, and Literature OL1993508W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.71 Pages 518 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0330427377 OL26323623M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language.'-JacketĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:30:18.550816 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1126101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Containerid S0022 External-identifier Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. An affair with a young black council worker 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 general elections which returned Mrs. In an era of endless possibility, Nick 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.

Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine, the critic and rebel of the family, who becomes both his friend and his uneasy responsibility.' 'As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters 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.

'It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine.

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