Leigh's review
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Leigh's review
rating:
bookshelves: booker-prize, glbt-interest, novels
status: Read in August, 2007
rating:
bookshelves: booker-prize, glbt-interest, novels
status: Read in August, 2007
I'd been meaning to look into Hollinghurst for years, ever since I read an exuberant review of 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 Hollinghurst's later The Spell, I'm not sure I could handle the irony.
In any case, I always look for Swimming Pool Library in book stores, but they never seem to carry it. So finally I got this instead, to help assuage my sudden lust--inspired by Birdsong, of all books--for contemporary British novels with class concerns. (Which is... kind of every British novel ever, isn't it?)
And I'm so glad I did. I'm still processing my opinion on the novel of a whole, but I know two things:
...more
In any case, I always look for Swimming Pool Library in book stores, but they never seem to carry it. So finally I got this instead, to help assuage my sudden lust--inspired by Birdsong, of all books--for contemporary British novels with class concerns. (Which is... kind of every British novel ever, isn't it?)
And I'm so glad I did. I'm still processing my opinion on the novel of a whole, but I know two things:
...more
