20-year-old Nick Guest Moves Into An Attic Room In The Notting Hill Home Of The Feddens. An Innocent In Matters Of Politics And Money, He Becomes Caught Up In The Feddins' World: Its Grand Parties, Its Surprising Alliances, Its Parade Of Monsters Both Comic And Menacing. In An Era Of Endless Possibility, He Finds Himself Able To Pursue His Own Private Obssession With Beauty--a Prize As Compelling To Him As Power And Riches Are To His Friends. As The Boom Years Of The Mid-eighties Unfold, Nick, An Innocent In Matters Of Politics And Money, Becomes Caught Up In The Feddens' World -- Its Grand Parties, Its Surprising Alliances, Its Parade Of Monsters Both Comic And Menacing. In An Era Of Endless Possibility, He Finds Himself Able To Pursue His Own Private Obession With Beauty -- A Prize As Compelling To Him As Power And Riches Are To His Friends. An Affair With A Young Black Clerk Gives Him His First Experience Of Romance, But It Is A Later Affair With A Beautiful Millionaire That Will Change His Life More Drastically And Bring Into Question The Larger Fantasies Of A Ruthless Decade. Alan Hollinghurst. A Duplicate Copy Of This Title Was Part Of The Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, But Was Not Retained. Winner 2004 Award For The Man Booker Prize For Fiction.
Categories:
- LGBTQ+ Books
- Literature & Fiction
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
Author : Hollinghurst, Alan
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2004-10-05
Number Of Pages : 400
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1582345082
ISBN-13 : 9781582345086
Item weight : 1.84 lb
Dimensions : 1.54 in x 6.54 in x 9.65 in
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