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From alan hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of the sparsholt affair, the line of beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. From alan hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of the sparsholt affair, the line of beauty isa sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy in the summer of 1983, twentyyearold nick guest moves into an attic room in the notting hill home of. The line of beauty by alan hollinghurst free mobi epub ebooks download. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young mans collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to. There are few authors who can move a book at such a torturedly slow pace and still manage a success.
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