The Line of Beauty - hardcover, 9781582345086, Alan Hollinghurst
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781582345086
- Book Title
- Line of Beauty : a Novel
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Item Length
- 10.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Family Life, Lgbt / Gay, General, Coming of Age
- Item Weight
- 29.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1582345082
ISBN-13
9781582345086
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30764280
Product Key Features
Book Title
Line of Beauty : a Novel
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Psychological, Family Life, Lgbt / Gay, General, Coming of Age
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
29.5 Oz
Item Length
10.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-047660
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
[A] masterpiece with a skillfully rendered social panorama, a Proustian alertness to social nuance and a stylistic precision that recalls [James]., Exquisitely written...Its delights and rewards extend beyond its comic or documentary achievements., In the tradition of Henry James, Hollinghurst has artfully crafted a piquant satire of privilege and sexuality in all its forms., "A magnificent comedy of manners. Hollinghurst's alertness to the tiniest social and tonal shifts never slackens...[an] outstanding novel."-New York Times Book Review "If you value style, wit and social satire in your reading, don't miss this elegant and passionate novel."-Washington Post "His most tender and powerful novel to date." A -Entertainment Weekly "Each sentence in this book rings as perfect and true as a Schubert sonata."-Hartford Courant "The Line of Beauty is itself a thing of beauty-an elegant and seductive novel."-Philadelphia City Paper "It really is his finest novel to date."-Geoff Dyer "A rueful, snapshot-accurate portrait of this era."-Seattle Times "[A] masterpiece with a skillfully rendered social panorama, a Proustian alertness to social nuance and a stylistic precision that recalls [James]."-Newsday "The most exquisitely written book I've read in years. Witty observations about politics, society, and family open like little revelations on every page." -Christian Science Monitor "Almost perfectly written novel...This novel has the air of a classic."-Publishers Weekly, starred review "In the tradition of Henry James, Hollinghurst has artfully crafted a piquant satire of privilege and sexuality in all its forms."-Genre Magazine "The best English novel of the year so far is Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty."-Zadie Smith, Guardian (UK) "Like reading gossip in beautifully made sentences with extraordinary insights into motive and nuance, allowing all the time for comedy."-Colm Toibin, Guardian (UK), Like reading gossip in beautifully made sentences with extraordinary insights into motive and nuance, allowing all the time for comedy., If you value style, wit and social satire in your reading, don't miss this elegant and passionate novel., Vast scope... smart, funny, and for all its vividly engaging ways, a pretty sound document of the times, Luminous...a crafty, glittering, sidelong bid by a contemporary master of English prose to be considered heir to James himself., "A magnificent comedy of manners. Hollinghurst's alertness to the tiniest social and tonal shifts never slackens...[an] outstanding novel." -- New York Times Book Review "If you value style, wit and social satire in your reading, don't miss this elegant and passionate novel." -- Washington Post "His most tender and powerful novel to date. A." -- Entertainment Weekly "Each sentence in this book rings as perfect and true as a Schubert sonata." -- Hartford Courant "The Line of Beauty is itself a thing of beauty-an elegant and seductive novel." -- Philadelphia City Paper "It really is his finest novel to date." -- Geoff Dyer "A rueful, snapshot-accurate portrait of this era." -- Seattle Times "[A] masterpiece with a skillfully rendered social panorama, a Proustian alertness to social nuance and a stylistic precision that recalls [James]." -- Newsday "The most exquisitely written book I've read in years. Witty observations about politics, society, and family open like little revelations on every page." -- Christian Science Monitor "Almost perfectly written novel...This novel has the air of a classic." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "In the tradition of Henry James, Hollinghurst has artfully crafted a piquant satire of privilege and sexuality in all its forms." -- Genre Magazine "The best English novel of the year so far is Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty." -- Zadie Smith, Guardian (UK) "Like reading gossip in beautifully made sentences with extraordinary insights into motive and nuance, allowing all the time for comedy." -- Colm Toibin, Guardian (UK), The most exquisitely written book I've read in years. Witty observations about politics, society, and family open like little revelations on every page., Must rank among the funniest [novels] ever written about Thatcher''s Britain, while remaining one of the most tragically sad, There is something memorable on every page...a shivering yet morally exacting satire that leaves no character untouched, Wonderful... almost unbelievably well-written. In its dazzling, very contemporary way, the book is tragic.But it is also consistently funny, Must rank among the funniest [novels] ever written about Thatcher's Britain, while remaining one of the most tragically sad, A magnificent comedy of manners. Hollinghurst's alertness to the tiniest social and tonal shifts never slackens...[an] outstanding novel., Hollinghurst writes harsh but deeply informed social satire, just as Proust did. He writes the best prose we have today., Wonderful... almost unbelievably well-written. In its dazzling, very contemporary way, the book is tragic...But it is also consistently funny, Wonderful... almost unbelievably well-written. In its dazzling, very contemporary way, the book is tragic…But it is also consistently funny, Hollinghurst proves to be one of the sharpest observers of privileged social groupings since Anthony Powell
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award., Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award. From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. 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, who is 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 is a major work by one of our finest writers., 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.
LC Classification Number
PR6058.O4467L56 2004
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