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050 00 $aPR6058.O4467$bL56 2004
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100 1 $aHollinghurst, Alan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86822799
245 14 $aThe line of beauty :$ba novel /$cAlan Hollinghurst.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury ;$a[Place of publication not identified] :$bDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck,$c2004.
300 $a438 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aUniversity of Oxford$xAlumni and alumnae$vFiction.
650 0 $aMale friendship$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107166
650 0 $aSocial classes$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111427
650 0 $aMarried people$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107177
650 0 $aLegislators$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106897
650 0 $aRich people$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110355
650 0 $aYoung men$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114024
650 0 $aGay men$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105062
651 0 $aNotting Hill (London, England)$vFiction.
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026492
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
655 7 $aBildungsromans.$2gsafd
852 00 $bmil$hPR6058.O4467$iL56 2004