![]() ![]() The novel begins in the summer of 1983, shortly after Margaret Thatcher's second victory in the general election. It explores themes of hypocrisy, privilege, drugs, and homosexuality, with the emerging AIDS crisis forming a backdrop to the book's conclusion. The book explores the tension between Nick's intimate relationship with the Fedden family, in whose parties and holidays he participates, and the realities of his sexuality and gay life, which the Feddens accept only to the extent of never mentioning it. ![]() Many of the significant characters in the novel are Nick's male contemporaries from Oxford. ![]() Nick is middle-class and from the fictional market town of Barwick in Northamptonshire he has graduated from Worcester College, Oxford with a First in English and is to begin postgraduate studies at University College London. The story surrounds the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest. The novel is set in Britain in three parts, taking place in 1983, 19. The Line of Beauty is a 2004 Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst. 2004 Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst ![]()
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