02637cam a2200385 4500 2674337442 TxAuBib 20260205120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781596918085 159691808X B002TTICDC Amazon 7659323f-76fc-4699-bb27-9fc0ea576d43 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 464299 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hollinghurst, Alan. The Line of Beauty [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Coming of age. love affairs. LGBTQ. HTML:<b>Winner of the Man Booker Prize</b><br /> <b>Named a Best Book of the Century by <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /> <b>International Bestseller</b><br /> <b>From acclaimed author Alan Hollinghurst, a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy.</b><br /> <b><br /></b>In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions.<br /> As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black man who works as a clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this is a major work by one of our finest writers. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Man Booker Prize for Fiction Nominee. Stonewall Honor Book Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-02-04 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7659323F-76FC-4699-BB27-9FC0EA576D43&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7659323F-76FC-4699-BB27-9FC0EA576D43&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BTCLS