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A review by micahhortonhallett
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
4.0
Wryly funny. Beautiful, simple, complex and terrible. The Line of Beauty got the Man Booker a decade ago for reasons. Lots of reasons. Set between Margaret Thatchers second election victory and her third, The Line of Beauty follows its remarkably un-self aware protagonist through the halls of reflected power and unearned excess- through the heart of the decade that defined the word excess.
This is a very good book. It works as satire, passion play and love letter all at once. It is genuinely erotic at times, and then undercuts its own eroticism; a book that holds the minds and the bodies of its characters and presents oven the most stereotyped of these as fully realised humans.
This is a very good book. It works as satire, passion play and love letter all at once. It is genuinely erotic at times, and then undercuts its own eroticism; a book that holds the minds and the bodies of its characters and presents oven the most stereotyped of these as fully realised humans.