ALAN HOLLINGHURST is the author of the novels The Stranger's Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
"A magnificent comedy of manners. Hollinghurst's alertness to the tiniest social and tonal shifts never slackens...[an] outstanding novel." --New York Times Book Review "If you value style, wit and social satire in your reading, don't miss this elegant and passionate novel." --Washington Post "His most tender and powerful novel to date. A." --Entertainment Weekly "Each sentence in this book rings as perfect and true as a Schubert sonata." --Hartford Courant "The Line of Beauty is itself a thing of beauty-an elegant and seductive novel." --Philadelphia City Paper "It really is his finest novel to date." --Geoff Dyer "A rueful, snapshot-accurate portrait of this era." --Seattle Times "[A] masterpiece with a skillfully rendered social panorama, a Proustian alertness to social nuance and a stylistic precision that recalls [James]." --Newsday "The most exquisitely written book I've read in years. Witty observations about politics, society, and family open like little revelations on every page." --Christian Science Monitor "Almost perfectly written novel...This novel has the air of a classic." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "In the tradition of Henry James, Hollinghurst has artfully crafted a piquant satire of privilege and sexuality in all its forms." --Genre Magazine "The best English novel of the year so far is Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty." --Zadie Smith, Guardian (UK) "Like reading gossip in beautifully made sentences with extraordinary insights into motive and nuance, allowing all the time for comedy." --Colm Toibin, Guardian (UK)
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