Picador, London, 2004. Later Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 501 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Edges browned slightly. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0330427377. ISBN/EAN: 9780330427371. Library of Congress No: 2004426556. Dewey Code: 823/.914 22. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB11241. . 9780330427371

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Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. Set in the United Kingdom in the early to mid-1980s, the story encompasses the post-Oxford life of the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest, who searches for beauty in everything around him while being less than perfect himself. The book explores the tensions between Nick's intimate relationship with the Feddens, in whose parties and holidays he participates, and the realities of his sexuality and gay life, which the Feddens accept but do not go to the extent of mentioning. The book considers themes of hypocrisy, homosexuality and wealth while exploring the difference between spiritual and material beauty.

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Bookseller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RB11241
Title: The line of beauty
Author: Alan Hollinghurst
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Later Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0330427377
ISBN 13: 9780330427371
Publisher: Picador
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2004
Keywords: BZDB1 University of Oxford Alumni and alumnae, Fiction, Notting Hill (London, England) Fiction, Male friendship Fiction, Social classes Fiction, Married people Fiction, Legislators Fiction, Rich people Fiction, Young men Fiction, Gay m Fiction; ISBN: 03

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Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...