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Article: Prize specimen: no gay novel ever won the Booker Prize--until now.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2004
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The Line of Beauty * Man Hollinghurst * Bloomsbury * $24.95
Set in London in the floodlit, hedonistic Thatcher years, Man Hollinghurst's fourth novel, The Line of Beauty--the first gay novel to win the United Kingdom's Booker Prize--is a virtuoso display of cunning observation, stylistic mastery, and wit. A comedy of manners with the unfunny undercurrent of the early years of AIDS, it follows the social and sexual adventures of the aptly named Nicholas Guest. From his beginnings as a scholarship boy at Oxford, Nick becomes a family friend and attic tenant in the well-appointed home of the Tory MP Gerald Fedden--and from there, the kept boyfriend of a millionaire ...