The line of beauty
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The line of beauty
AUTHOR:
Hollinghurst, Alan
ISBN:
9781447202523
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Picador, 2012
PHYSICAL_DESC:
501, 18 p. ; 20 cm
ABSTRACT:
"It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in matters of politics and money, 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. As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world, while pursuing his own private obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. An early 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 brings into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade."--Back cover.
SUBJECT:
| University of Oxford -- Alumni and alumnae -- Fiction |
| Notting Hill (London, England) -- Fiction |
| Male friendship -- Fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
"It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in matters of politics and money, 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. As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world, while pursuing his own private obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. An early 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 brings into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade."--Back cover.