![]() There’s a lot of sex, drugs and more sex. We do get some of the sense of the period but it’s merely as background to the story of the sexual awakening of a young homosexual, his encounters with the great and the good and his relationships with a series of men. ![]() But it was also the decade that saw the emergence of the Aids/HIV crisis. This was the era of Margaret Thatcher, economic euphoria and ultra confidence among the privileged governing classes. The Line of Beauty is meant to be a novel reflecting on the nature of Britain in the 1980s. All were far more enticing than Alun Hollinghurst’s text. This winner of the 2004 Booker Prize was so dull at times that I was tempted to abandon and go in search of more interesting reading material - a railway timetable, the instruction booklet for my cooker or th ingredients panel of a cereal packet. ![]() What a disappointment The Line of Beautyturned out to be. ![]()
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