The Line of Beauty

Name: The Line of Beauty
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Alan Hollinghurst
ISBN: 9781582345543

Alan Hollinghurst • 2004

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined

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Our Take

Nick Guest spends the Thatcher years as a decorative object in a Conservative household, mistaking proximity to power for belonging. Hollinghurst makes the 80s gorgeous and lethal in equal measure. When Nick finally loses everything, you realize the house was never his — nothing was.

Appears In

► Queer Tragedy — Love, Loss, and the Cost of Being Visible ► Queer Coming of Age — The Cost of Becoming Yourself ► Race in Britain — The Empire Comes Home ► Class and Wealth — The Cruelty of the Hierarchy

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