An edition of The Line of Beauty (2004)

The Line of Beaty

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An edition of The Line of Beauty (2004)

The Line of Beaty

a novel

1st U.S. ed.
  • 3.7 (15 ratings) ·
  • 92 Want to read
  • 12 Have read

It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved 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, who becomes both a friend to Nick and his uneasy responsibility.

As the boom years of the mid-eighties 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, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession with beauty--a prize as compelling to him as power and riches to his friends. An affair with a young black clerk gives him his first experience of romance, but it is a later affair with a beautiful millionaire that will change his life drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade.

Framed by the two general elections that returned Margaret Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, this is a major work by one of our finest writers. (front flap)

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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
Pages
438

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
2004

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6058.O4467 L56 2004, PR6058.O4467 L56 2005
lccn_permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/2004047660

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
438 p. ;
Number of pages
438

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3304818M
Internet Archive
linebeauty00holl
ISBN 10
1582345082
ISBN 13
9781582345086
LCCN
2004047660
OCLC/WorldCat
55495152, 1034544192, 62269675
Library Thing
1867062
Goodreads
792644

First Sentence

"PETER CROWTHER'S BOOK on the election was already in the shops."

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It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved 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, who becomes both a friend to Nick and his uneasy responsibility.

As the boom years of the mid-eighties 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, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession with beauty--a prize as compelling to him as power and riches to his friends. An affair with a young black clerk gives him his first experience of romance, but it is a later affair with a beautiful millionaire that will change his life drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade.

Framed by the two general elections that returned Margaret Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, this is a major work by one of our finest writers.

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