{"product_id":"the-line-of-beauty-9781582346106","title":"The Line of Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Man Booker Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Century by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom acclaimed author Alan Hollinghurst, a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Hollinghurst \u003c\/b\u003eis the winner of numerous literary awards, including the Man Booker Price, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He is the author of T\u003ci\u003ehe Sparsholt Affair, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Stranger's Child, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spell, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Folding Star\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Man Booker Prize for fiction and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618699514130,"sku":"9781582346106","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c828f8e0-7c9c-4bd1-a8ce-7808b499535d.jpg?v=1770135193","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-line-of-beauty-9781582346106","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}