It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man's collision with his own desires and with a world he can never truly belong to. The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. 'I recently read Alan Hollinghursts wonderful novel The Line of Beauty, and have had a hard time getting it out of my system.The upper-class British, gay London party scene of the 1980s is about. Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens' world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty. Adapted by award-winning writer Andrew Davies from Alan Hollinghursts Booker Prize-winning novel, this three-part saga is set during the hedonistic 1980s and stars a mix of new, young talent and established names. It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, 2005, Bloomsbury edition, Paperback in English - paperback edition (1) It looks like youre offline. In the summer of 1983, 23-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife, Rachel, and their children, Toby and Catherine. Alan Hollinghurst portrays a ruthless decade through Nick, an increasingly-less-innocent abroad, as he gets caught up in the boom years of the 80s. There was the soft glare of the flash - twice - three times - a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, 'Prime Minister, would you like to dance?' Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain. With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks. Betrayed by Beauty: Ethics and Aesthetics in Alan Hollinghursts The Line of Beauty Texas Studies in Literature and Language Article / Chapter Tools Related.