The Line of Beauty Podcast Episodes

Written by Alan Hollinghurst

2 Episodes - 438 pages - ★★★★ - 364 ratings

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Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty

World Book Club - November 05, 2017 04:06 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 332 ratings
Best-selling British writer Alan Hollinghurst talks about his Booker prize-winning novel, The Line of Beauty. In the summer of 1983 20-year-old graduate Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the glamorous Notting Hill home of ambitious Tory MP Gerald Fedden. Nick’s glittering party and politic...
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Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty

Bookclub - March 05, 2012 11:15 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 205 ratings
Alan Hollinghurst talks to James Naughtie and readers about his 2004 Man Booker prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty. Framed by the general elections of 1983 and 1987 which returned Margaret Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty is a story of love, class, sex and money - and AIDs. It won prai...
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