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Ideaplay in his first two novels seemed so undigested that it was a relief to enter, in his third, the spell, a thesisfree zone. Alan hollinghurst is an english novelist, and winner of the 2004 booker prize for the line of beauty. Alan hollinghurst is the author of the novels the swimmingpool library. Nobody big except me is the dream world of holden caulfield and his first person story is down to the basic, drab english of the precollegiate. His 2011 novel, the strangers child was longlisted for the man booker. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast cm. The line of beauty by alan hollinghurst librarything. It is a work of historical fiction and is set in londons gay scene in the early 1980s nick guest.
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