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The Line of Beauty
Literature · 2004
Alan Hollinghurst
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Literature 2004

The Line of Beauty

Tory-house desireAIDS-era class observationThatcherite elegance
Author
Alan Hollinghurst
Year
2004
Region
United Kingdom
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It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved 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...

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Tory-house desire Tory-house desireAIDS-era class observation
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Alan Hollinghurst, 2004 — The Line of Beauty

It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved 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...

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Restates memory in a sharper literature register.
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It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved 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...
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