2008, ISBN: 9781596918085

A Novel, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC awardA New York Times Bestseller (Extended) An LA Times Be… Altro …

A Novel, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC awardA New York Times Bestseller (Extended) An LA Times BestsellerA Northern California BestsellerA Sunday Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFrom 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 man who works as a 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. [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)], Seiten: 448, Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), 2008<

ISBN: 9781596918085

Winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC awardA New York Times Bestseller (Extended) An LA Times BestsellerA Northern California Bestseller… Altro …

Winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC awardA New York Times Bestseller (Extended) An LA Times BestsellerA Northern California BestsellerA Sunday Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFrom 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 man who works as a 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. Digital Content>E-books>Art,Design & Photography>Art>Surveys, Bloomsbury Publishing Digital >16<

2004, ISBN: 9781596918085

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 Beau… Altro …

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. Digital Content>E-books>Art,Design & Photography>Art>Surveys, Bloomsbury Publishing Digital >16<

2004, ISBN: 9781596918085

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 Beau… Altro …

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 isa sweeping novel about class, sex, and 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 isa sweeping novel about class, sex, and, Bloomsbury USA<

2008, ISBN: 9781596918085

A Novel, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)], Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), 2008