The Line of Beauty

Resumen del libro

Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain There was the soft glare of the flash -- twice -- three times -- a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, 'Prime Minister, would you like to dance? In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine. Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens' world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty. The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece.
It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man's collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to.

Biografía del autor

Alan Hollinghurst (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1954) estu dió en Oxford, fue profesor en el Magdalen College de dicha universidad, en el University College de Londres y en otras universidades. Ha sido también miembro del comité de redacción del Times Literary Supplement. En Anagrama se han publicado todas sus novelas: La biblioteca de la piscina (Premio Somerset Maugham 1988 y Premio E. M. Forster de la American Academy of Arts and Letters 1989), La estrella de la guarda (James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1994), El hechizo, La línea de la belleza (Premio Man Booker 2004) y El hijo del des conocido.