num_pages: 438
description: In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves 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. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends.Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this U.K. bestseller is a major work by one of our finest writers.
language: English
title: The Line of Beauty
titlecomplete: The Line of Beauty
genres: British Literature, LGBT, Gay, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 27546
places: United Kingdom, London, England
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: Bloomsbury