num_pages: 501
description: Alan Hollinghurst's book takes up where his previous acclaimed work, The swimming-pool library ends. The line of beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens as the Thatcher boom-years unfold.
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