The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst · 2004
Literary Fiction · ranked #130 in category
Winner · The Booker Prize, 2004
Nick Guest, a young gay man from a modest background, moves into the Notting Hill home of his Oxford friend Toby Fedden, whose father is a Tory MP. The novel follows Nick across three pivotal years in 1980s Thatcher Britain — through parties, affairs, AIDS and the inevitable end of his borrowed life. Winner of the Booker Prize.
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