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- catalog abstract ""It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest 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, the critic and rebel of the family, who becomes both his friend and his uneasy responsibility." "As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters of politics and money, becomes caught up in the Feddens' world - its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. 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. An affair with a young black council worker gives him his first experience of romance; but it is a later affair, with a beautiful millionaire, that will change his life more drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade." "Framed by the two general elections which returned Mrs. Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13164025.
- catalog coverage "Notting Hill (London, England) Fiction.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest 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, the critic and rebel of the family, who becomes both his friend and his uneasy responsibility." "As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters of politics and money, becomes caught up in the Feddens' world - its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. 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. An affair with a young black council worker gives him his first experience of romance; but it is a later affair, with a beautiful millionaire, that will change his life more drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade." "Framed by the two general elections which returned Mrs. Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "501 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0330427377 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "033048320X".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Picador,".
- catalog spatial "Notting Hill (London, England) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "823/.914 22".
- catalog subject "Gay men Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Legislators Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Male friendship Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Married people Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PR6058.O4467 L56 2004b".
- catalog subject "Rich people Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Social classes Fiction.".
- catalog subject "University of Oxford Alumni and alumnae Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Young men Fiction.".
- catalog title "The line of beauty / Alan Hollinghurst.".
- catalog type "Bildungsromans. gsafd".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "Psychological fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Psychological fiction.".
- catalog type "text".