![]() Nick is anticipating the beginning of classes in a PhD program in literature at University College London, where he will research the style of author Henry James. ![]() Rachel and Gerald Fedden are the parents of Toby, one of Nick’s classmates at Oxford, and a daughter, Catherine. The Line of Beauty begins in the summer of 1983, as narrator Nick Guest lodges in the home of the Feddens in Notting Hill near London shortly after graduating from Oxford. It also takes place during Britain’s political uncertainty and turmoil, combining these large narrative threads into a novelistic outcome that is both ironic and tragic. ![]() Set in the London underground gay scene of the early 1980s, an era that was known for its vibrant urban club culture, gay civil rights protests, and the simultaneous panic about the AIDS crisis. Alan Hollinghurst’s historical fiction The Line of Beauty (2004) was the first work classified in the genre of gay literature to receive the U.K.’s Booker Prize. ![]()
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