The line of beauty : a novel

by Alan Hollinghurst

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2004

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Booker Prize (2004)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee (2005)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee (Gay Men's Fiction, 2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Fiction, 2004)

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Amazon.com (ISBN 0330483218, Paperback)

Interview with Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst's extraordinarily rich novel The Line of Beauty. has garnered a new level of acclaim for the author after winning the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Hollinghurst speaks about his work in our interview.