num_pages: 501
description: In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby – whom Nick had idolized at Oxford – and Catherine, always standing at a critical angle to the family and its assumptions and ambitions.As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick, an innocent in the worlds of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of the glamorous family he is entangled with. Two vividly contrasting love-affairs, with a young black clerk and a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to him as that of power and riches to his friends.Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language.
language: English
title: The Line of Beauty
titlecomplete: The Line of Beauty
genres: Fiction, Queer, LGBT, British Literature, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 27551
places: London, England, United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador