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The Line of Beauty - Hollinghurst, Alan, and Faulks, Sebastian (Introduction by)

The Line of Beauty

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With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks 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. 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?' In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room ...

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apollo

Oct 4, 2011

Henry James with sex

"Jamesian" is to me a term of disparagement--wordy and displaying how to write and to say very little in the process. But this book does say something--lessons in how to be a loser. (Wouldn't it be nice if a novel told you how to be a winner?) AIDS, of course, figures heavily in it--if you want drama in a gay novel, how can you do better than AIDS. Cocaine and three-ways: all the magic ingredients to give you a feling or anguish--but did you really want that anguish? Ingredients made-to-order drama, because like tragic operas, AIDS novels end with death, and make you feel so wonderful about it. Yes, exquisite writing. Read it and admire, then give it away, you won't want to read it again. Neither will the friend you gave it to.

bud19

Sep 18, 2008

language as art

if you have never read alan hollinghurst, prepare yourself for a display of the english language as few can ever hope to accomplish. soaring prose...language as art. having read all four of his major works, i was not disappointed by "the line of beauty". the only let-down was moving on to my next book by a lesser author and feeling, well the only way i can compare it is to visualize when your high definition cable tv goes off in a storm and you are forced to revert to simple antenna reception. although all of hollinghurst's works involve gay themes and charachters, i can only suggest that the prospective reader get past this and dive in. get to know how achingly expressive the english language can be and why it is that we read fiction in the first place: to be moved and to have our breath taken away simply by turning the page.

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