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The line of beauty by by alan hollinghurst this the line of beauty book is not really ordinary book, you have it then the world is in your hands. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie burieduntil, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them. There is a classic definition of the line of beauty depicted by hogarth in his work analyse of beauty, its a sshaped double curve, though for nick, the main protagonist of alan hollinghurst novel, the perfect line of beauty creates delicate curve of lovers back. The novel is set in britain in three parts, taking place in 1983, 1986 and 1987. Winner of the 2004 man booker prize and a finalist for the lambda literary award and the nbcc award. The novel is set in britain in three parts, taking place in 1983. The line of beauty is alan hollinghurst s man booker prizewinning masterpiece. The gay hero, nick guest, is on his way to a blind date. There are many models of beauty and as old saying goes beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Innocent of politics and money, nick is swept up into the feddens world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty. In the summer of 1983 20yearold graduate nick guest moves into an attic room in the. The line of beauty by alan hollinghurst seeing read. The situation is complicated by the use of cocaine one meaning of the line of beauty in which nick central character is complicit but ahs essential point is, despite the permissiveness not available to earlier gays like firbank, secrecy and pretence is still the. I find it so easy to get lost in the elegance and artistry of alan hollinghursts the line of beauty.
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