• Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: The Line of Beauty

  • Aug 30 2024
  • Length: 52 mins
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: The Line of Beauty

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  • Today’s Great Political Fiction is Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty (2004), which is set between Thatcher’s two dominant general election victories of 1983 and 1987. A novel about the intersection between gay life and Tory life, high politics and low conduct, beauty and betrayal, it explores the price of power and the risks of liberation. It also contains perhaps the greatest of all fictional portrayals of a real-life prime minster: Thatcher dancing the night away.


    Tomorrow: Curtis Sittingfield’s American Wife


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