false 139087 17 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. 918312 2004 The Line of Beauty total:1712|5:333|4:563|3:482|2:238|1:96| 1712 5935 2712 267 4 33 false false Sun May 11 11:21:15 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 08 21:58:18 -0700 2009
So lately my life does seem like a pot of thick, scalding acrid coffee; I read books in the hope that they'll help me choke it down. But for some reason everything I pick up lately's been uns...more...]]> 5 8 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jul 11 20:46:23 -0700 2007 Sun May 11 11:25:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 07:57:47 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 12 16:47:24 -0800 2009 The Swimming Pool Library... by a writer whose opinion I respected but whom I can't remember now. Martin Amis, maybe? I want to say John Updike, but given the controversy over his New Yorker review of Holl...more...]]> 3 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 22:43:03 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 25 13:02:55 -0800 2007
AWARD WINNING CAST REUNITED FOR 'THE LINE OF BEAUTY' ADAPTATION.

(HOLLYWOOD, Nov 25, 2007)

Academy Award winning producer Alan Ball announced today that he has reunited most of the cast of Six Feet Under for an HBO production of the award-winni...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Apr 03 02:13:22 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 03 22:56:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 03:36:43 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 03:48:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 07:19:41 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 07:45:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 06:21:45 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 06:22:50 -0700 2008 5 2 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Feb 28 08:00:17 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 14 19:26:34 -0700 2008 4 2 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 17 05:25:24 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 05:25:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 14:47:50 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 11:10:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 31 10:31:18 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 08 06:04:09 -0800 2008
The writing was supposed to by lyrical and graceful, but it was just long-winded and poorly executed. For beautiful prose, this...more...]]> 5 2 true false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Apr 27 19:35:58 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 27 19:48:06 -0700 2007
The Line of Beauty contains some of the most beautiful passages in fiction I've read in, well, my life. ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:27:58 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:27:58 -0800 2009 The Line of Beauty is the first novel focused on gay life to win the Booker Prize, yet it does more than glance back at the sometimes frivolous and deadly aspects of London's gay culture. Hollinghurst, acknowledged as one of his generation's best writers, is an incisive social and political satirist...

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Nick Guest is a working class guest at a tory mps home, through his friendship with there kids. He is also as camp as a row of tents. If you are likely to be offput by details of homosexua...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Sep 02 11:23:16 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 11:26:07 -0700 2009
Alan Hollinghurst has consistently written intelligent and sensual novels ("The Swimming Pool Library", "The Folding Star" and "The Spell") that have found a readership that crosses over from his initial...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Aug 21 06:40:50 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 06:41:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu May 21 09:17:03 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 09:17:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Apr 23 15:20:52 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 15:22:21 -0700 2009
On the other hand this novel is one of the strangest novels I've read recently. Friend asked me could I reco...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 18 10:59:50 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 11:32:07 -0700 2009
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