The Line of Beauty
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: paperback edition (4)
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781582346106
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Novel; Fiction - General; Fiction; Gay; Literary; Fiction / General; General
First sentence: PETER CROWTHER'S BOOK on the election was already in the shops.
Description: One of the most critically acclaimed books of 2004, <i>The Line of Beauty</i> is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money that brings Thatcher's London alive. Nick Guest has moved in with the Feddens, a family whose patriarch is a conservative Member of Parliament. An innocent in matters of politics and money, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world of parties and excess, as well as in his own privat pursuit of beauty. Framed by the two general elections that returned Margaret Thatcher to power, <i>The Line of Beauty</i> unfurls through four exrraordinary years of change and tragedy.
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