| Description |
438 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
As the boom years of the mid-eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters of politics and money, becomes caught up in the Feddens' world -- its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. In an era of endless possibility, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obession with beauty -- a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. An affair with a young black clerk gives him his first experience of romance, but it is a later affair with a beautiful millionaire that will change his life more drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade |
| Summary |
"It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest 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. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine, the critic and rebel of the family, who becomes both his friend and his uneasy responsibility." |
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"As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters of politics and money, becomes caught up in the Feddens' world - its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. In an era of endless possibility, Nick finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. An 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 will change his life more drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade." "Framed by the two general elections which returned Mrs. Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"First published in the United States by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2004."--T.p. verso |
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"National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist"--Back cover |
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize, 2005 |
| Subject |
University of Oxford -- Alumni and alumnae -- Fiction.
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Social classes -- Fiction.
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Coming of age -- Fiction.
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Male friendship -- Fiction.
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Social classes -- Fiction.
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Married people -- Fiction.
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Legislators -- Fiction.
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Rich people -- Fiction.
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Young men -- Fiction.
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Gay men -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Notting Hill (London, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91055140 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Bildungsromans
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Bildungsromans.
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Psychological fiction
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Domestic fiction
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Domestic fiction.
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Fictional Work.
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Bildungsromans.
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Domestic fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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| LC no. |
2004047660 |
| ISBN |
1582345082 |
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