In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby whom Nick had idolized at Oxford and Catherine, always standing at a critical angle to the family and its assumptions and ambitions. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick, an innocent in the worlds of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of the glamorous family he is entangled with. Two vividly contrasting love-affairs, with a young black clerk and a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to him as that of power and riches to his friends. Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language.
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From the author of The Swimming-Pool Library comes a perfectly realized evocation of a very particular world in a very particular time. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004.
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of three novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star and The Spell. He lives in London.
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Condizione: Como nuevo. : En el verano de 1983, Nick Guest, de 20 años, se muda a una habitación en el ático de la casa de los Fedden en Notting Hill: Gerald, miembro del Parlamento conservador, su rica esposa Rachel y sus dos hijos, Toby, a quien Nick había idealizado en Oxford, y Catherine, siempre en un ángulo crítico con la familia y sus suposiciones y ambiciones. A medida que se desarrollan los años del boom de Thatcher, Nick, un inocente en los mundos de la política y el dinero, ve su vida alterada por la creciente fortuna de la glamurosa familia con la que está enredado. Dos romances vívidamente contrastantes, con un joven empleado negro y un millonario libanés, dramatizan los peligros y recompensas de su propia búsqueda privada de la belleza, una búsqueda tan convincente para él como la del poder y las riquezas para sus amigos. Comenzando en el momento en que terminó The Swimming-Pool Library, The Line of Beauty traza la historia posterior de una década de cambio y tragedia. Ricamente texturizada, emocionalmente cargada, cómicamente desconcertante, es una obra importante de uno de los mejores escritores en lengua inglesa. EAN: 9780330483209 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Line of Beauty Autor: Alan Hollinghurst Editorial: Picador Idioma: en Páginas: 512 Formato: tapa dura. Codice articolo Happ-2024-11-07-7c8fc24b
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Condizione: Muy bueno. : En el verano de 1983, Nick Guest, de 20 años, se muda a una habitación en el ático de la casa de los Fedden en Notting Hill: Gerald, miembro del Parlamento conservador, su rica esposa Rachel y sus dos hijos, Toby, a quien Nick había idealizado en Oxford, y Catherine, siempre en un ángulo crítico con la familia y sus suposiciones y ambiciones. A medida que se desarrollan los años del boom de Thatcher, Nick, un inocente en los mundos de la política y el dinero, ve su vida alterada por la creciente fortuna de la glamurosa familia con la que está enredado. Dos romances vívidamente contrastantes, con un joven empleado negro y un millonario libanés, dramatizan los peligros y recompensas de su propia búsqueda privada de la belleza, una búsqueda tan convincente para él como la del poder y las riquezas para sus amigos. Comenzando en el momento en que terminó The Swimming-Pool Library, The Line of Beauty traza la historia posterior de una década de cambio y tragedia. Ricamente texturizada, emocionalmente cargada, cómicamente desconcertante, es una obra importante de uno de los mejores escritores en lengua inglesa. EAN: 9780330483209 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Line of Beauty Autor: Alan Hollinghurst Editorial: Picador Idioma: en Páginas: 512 Formato: tapa dura. Codice articolo Happ-2025-02-11-1ac8392c
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