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1. www.youtube.com › watchThe Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst | Book Review - YouTube

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   Sep 5, 2023 · The Line of Beauty is a complex and moving novel that explores the human condition in all its complexity. It is a story of love, loss, and self-discovery, an...

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   Alan Hollinghurst's *The Line of Beauty* is a richly layered novel set against the backdrop of 1980s Britain. Following Nick Guest, a young, gay Oxford gradu...

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3. www.youtube.com › watchThe Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst: Exploring ... - YouTube

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   In this captivating video, we delve into the world of "The Line of Beauty" by Alan Hollinghurst. Join us as we explore the themes of social class, desire, and the illusions of the 1980s...

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4. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › featuresAlan Hollinghurst interview: ‘Winning changed my life and my ...

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   Jun 3, 2024 · Your novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. How did it feel to win, and what impact did the win have on your career, both immediately and over the years that followed? How do you look back on the experience of winning 20 years later?

5. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst - Goodreads

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   Apr 16, 2004 · 28,988 ratings1,950 reviews. 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, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions.

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6. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › featuresReading guide: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

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   Jun 3, 2024 · Hollinghurst centres The Line of Beauty around gay experiences, highlighting the AIDS epidemic and the associated stigma. Do you believe his portrayal of the challenges faced by the gay community during the 1980s is an accurate representation?

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   Was 'the line of beauty' a gay novel?

   • Upon winning the Booker Prize in 2004, much of the media response focused on the characters’ sexual orientation. ‘A novel full of explicit gay sex seduced the judges,’ wrote the Telegraph, while the Times of India said called The Line of Beauty ‘a novel bursting with gay sex and Thatcherite excesses’.

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   How did winning 'the line of beauty' Change Your Life?

   • The Line of Beauty had come out five months earlier, and had generally been well received, and I was happy to have got that far. Winning, of course, changed my life and my prospects at once: a huge increase in income, foreign rights sold in many new territories, and the start of nearly two years of whizzing round the world talking about the book.

   Alan Hollinghurst interview: ‘Winning changed my life and my prospects

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   When did the line of beauty win the Booker Prize?

   • Your novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. How did it feel to win, and what impact did the win have on your career, both immediately and over the years that followed? How do you look back on the experience of winning 20 years later?

   Alan Hollinghurst interview: ‘Winning changed my life and my prospects

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   Is the line of beauty a party scene?

   • The Line of Beauty was really one party scene after another. It seemed to be a good way of writing about that period with all this competitive hospitality and ostentation. And just technically, for writing, a party is a very good way to bring everyone together and let you observe them at the same time. They usually have a comic ingredient.

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   Why is the line of beauty not in first person?

   • ‘ The Line of Beauty is told in the third person, but everything is filtered through a single consciousness, Nick’s: we see things as he sees them, so there is no logistical reason for the novel not to have been in the first person.

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8. www.bibliofreak.net › 2011 › 11Review: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

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   Nov 3, 2011 · The Line of Beauty is a novel of subtlety, not propelled by moments of overwhelming conflict, but rather eased gently towards its conclusion by a string of wonderfully orchestrated set pieces; Hollinghurst a master at observing and portraying social gatherings.