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Rent The Line of Beauty
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Pr Special
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $20.00
Pages: 438
Synopsis
IIt's the 1980s, and Margaret Thatcher is Britain's PM. A Henry James scholar named Nick Guest, just down from Oxford, is staying with his friend Gerald at the posh home of Gerald's father, a Tory member of Parliament. There he befriends a suicidal young woman as he also becomes caught up in the world of the idle rich, learning eventually that there are indeed vast differences between the rich and everyone else. The novel takes Nick through the '80s, as he comes to terms with his homosexuality, has a number of affairs, witnesses the ravages of AIDS, discovers cocaine, and finally is confronted with a scandal that may destroy him. Margaret Thatcher, the reigning queen behind the upscale glitz of Britain in that decade, makes a cameo appearance late in the novel.
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