The Line of Beauty

Resumen del libro

It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy responsibility.

At the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world. In an era of endless possibility, Nick finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession, with beauty a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends.

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.