基本信息出版社：Picador USA
页码：512 页
出版日期：2004年01月
ISBN：033048320X
International Standard Book Number：033048320X
条形码：9780330483209
EAN：9780330483209
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
外文书名：美丽的线

内容简介 In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby - whom Nick had idolized at Oxford - and Catherine, always standing at a critical angle to the family and its assumptions and ambitions. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick, an innocent in the worlds of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of the glamorous family he is entangled with. Two vividly contrasting love-affairs, with a young black clerk and a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to him as that of power and riches to his friends. Starting at the moment "The Swimming-Pool Library" ended, "The Line of Beauty" traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language.
作者简介 Alan Hollinghurst is the author of three novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star and The Spell. He lives in London.