THE LINE OF BEAUTY - ALAN HOLLINGHURST

Autor: ALAN HOLLINGHURST

Editorial: PICADOR

Año: 2004

ISBN: 9780330483209

Encuadernación: DURA SOBRECUBIERTA

Cubierta: Bien

Nota: LITERATURA EN OTROS IDIOMAS

LIBRO ESCRITO EN INGLES.Set in Britain in the early to mid-1980s the story surrounds the young gay protagonist Nick Guest who has come down from Oxford with a first in English and is to begin graduate studies at University College London.501 PAGINASThe novel begins in the summer of 1983 shortly after Thatchers landslide victory in the Parliamentary election of that year. Nick moves into the luxurious London home of the wealthy Fedden family. The son of the house Toby is his Oxford University classmate and best friend and Nicks stay is meant to last for a short time while Toby and his parents - Rachel the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family and Gerald a successful businessman and just-elected Tory MP - are on holiday in France. Left at home with Nick is the Feddens daughter Cat who is bipolar and whom the Feddens are reluctant to leave on her own. Nick helps Cat through a minor crisis and when her parents return they suggest he stay on indefinitely since Cat has become attached to him and Toby is getti