The Line of Beauty - Picador Collection

Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is exquisitely written, wryly funny and powerfully moving - a perfectly realized tale of our times.

About the author

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of seven novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty, The Stranger’s Child, The Sparsholt Affair and Our Evenings. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.

Summary

Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is exquisitely written, wryly funny and powerfully moving - a perfectly realized tale of our times.

Foreword

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is a perfectly realized tale of our times.

Additional text

The immaculate rolling cadences of his novel are the keenest pleasure English prose has to offer

Product details

• Authors: Alan Hollinghurst, Hollinghurst Alan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781529077209
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-7720-9
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Collection; 50YO
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, Sagas, Central London, FICTION / Satire, Narrative theme: Social issues, Of specific Gay interest, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay