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| The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst. List Price:£11.89 |
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2004 Man Booker Prize Winner Amazon review:
A beautifully-written book. Every sentence, even word, chosen with great care. Just occasionally I felt the phrasing a little too self-consciously intellectual.For me it's rare to read a book with almost no sympathetic characters - Nick, the central character, certainly isn't.It is a deliciously-observed picture of the money-grabbing, lying, self-preoccupied corruption of the Thatcherite mid-1980's
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| Picador, Hardcover 320 pages (April 2004) [Hits: 341] |
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| The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst . List Price:£3.99 |
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This story is set in the summer of 1983, where young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens'. Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life, it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy responsibility. At the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world. In an era of endless possibility, Nick finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. 'Luminous ...[an] astonishingly Jamesian novel, a crafty, glittering, sidelong bid by a contemporary master of English prose to be considered heir to James himself. For a novel that spans only four years, 1983 to 1987, it seems to encompass a world as capacious as any in a James novel' - "The Times". 'There is something memorable on every page... there is much to savour in "The Line of Beauty", not least its humour, a shivering yet morally exacting satire that leaves no character untouched' - "Times 'Superb... Alan Hollinghurst is in the prime of his writing life, and the immaculate rolling cadences of his new novel are right now the keenest pleasure English prose has to offer' - "Daily Telegraph". 'Quite simply a joy to read. It is solid and traditional, beautifully crafted. A quiet masterpiece' - "Scotland on Sunday."
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| Picador, Paperback 300 pages (May 5, 2006) [Hits: 247] |
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| The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt. List Price:£7.99 |
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On the surface, Philip's parents, Rose and Owen, live comfortable, settled lives. Their lives are about to be disturbed as they confront their son's long-concealed homosexuality. But there is a darker secret that could destroy a marriage and damage lives, and that secret belongs to Owen himself.
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| Paperback - 336 pages Reissue (January 1992) [Hits: 435] |
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| Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky. List Price:£10.99 |
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Lawnboy is a beautifully realised, erotic and at times wonderfully sexy read from first time author Paul Lisicky. The characterisations are spot on and the story of a young gay guy's emotional and spiritual growth is quite riveting. This is a remarkably bittersweet tale which effectively portrays the "topographical" emotional growth of Evan a seventeen year old "gay everyman" Lisicky sets his novel against the decaying suburban world of South Florida and uses this to symbolically portray the ever existing dysfunctionalilties that can exist in contemporary families. Evan nurtures a private world which is full of sexual and emotional longing and Lisicky effectively juxtaposes this with the indiscriminate ugliness of the landscapes he walks in. Adolescent confusion, the first gay sexual passion, sexuality in the age of AIDS, sibling and parental relationships and the transience of everyday life are all addressed with startling alacrity in this book. There is a genuine compassion evident in Evan's journey through adolescence - witness his first relationship with the older and world weary Willam and its subsequent disintegraton. There is compassion evident in his strained relationship with his overbearing father, ineffectual mother and his sexually ambivalent brother. The passion is evident in his affair with Hector, the sexy urbanite. This leads to ultimate fulfillment in the arms of the affable and altuistic Perry. This is an incedibly naturalistic and gritty piece of work and Lisicky never "sugar coats" or compromises Evan's circumstances and his desperation to be loved. Evan moves on in life and at the end of the novel we hopefully see him grow up. Lawnboy is a wonderful examination of the growth of the young gay male psyche and this is something that I think people whether gay or straight can at some point in their lives relate to.
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| Paperback - 386 pages (10 October, 1999) [Hits: 189] |
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| Love, Sal by Sal Iacopelli, Phil Foglio. List Price:£10.99 |
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Love Sal is a series of letters chronicling the triumps, tribulations and madness of a queer HIV positive drama addict. It is a hilarious, outrageous story about friendship, the wildness of San Francisco and a year long S/M relationship.
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| Paperback - 200 pages (1 September, 2000) [Hits: 201] |
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| Lemon Gulch by D. O'Malley. List Price:£9.95 |
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This picaresque tale is a riveting, can't-put-down read. Danny, the hero, speaks in a language that is strong, strange, oddly compelling, and perfect for this particular hero's quest. It is a quest for identity and acceptance, and his journey is richly peopled with characters who are variously menacing, kind, loopy, loving, selfish. The book contains "A Epic Pome" that is rendered with hugely comic, manic intensity. And Danny's message -- that people should be kind, ALL of them -- is one that illuminates with a particular sweet-natured brightness this original, compelling moral tale. Author Donovan O'Malley has turned in what is destined to become a classic in this fine first novel.
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| Paperback (1 November, 1999) [Hits: 300] |
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| Love's Last Chance by Randall Kraus. List Price:£8.99 |
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Fate has strange and wonderful plans for wisecracking Nigel Adams and cynical, aristocratic Nicky Borja, who are accidentally thrown together in a Tuscany villa, where they have both fled to escape from life and its heartbreaks. Hostility and bickering turn to fireworks in the unwelcomely close quarters, and as the summer progresses, a fiery romance is kindled from oil and water. But fate can be sinister as well as sweetly seductive, and on their return to San Francisco, Nicky and Nigel are horrified to discover that a friend they recently met, the publishing heiress Evelyn VanDeventer Iversen, has been drowned in a remote Arizona lake while camping with her new and much younger husband. In an attempt to help Evelyn's daughter discover the truth about her mother's death, the newly-in-love and eager-for-adventure pair find themselves in the deserts of Utah and Arizona on the trail of the truth that could threaten their newly discovered lives together. Love After Death is a delightfully poignant and funny blend of mystery and romance, exploring the possibilities of love in the face of danger and the resurrection of the human heart.
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| Paperback - 288 pages (15 December, 2000) [Hits: 289] |
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