The ultimate book on the idolisation of youth and beauty, Oscar Wildes The. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. WHEN DOES VANITY BECOME NARCISSISM The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man's collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to.

The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. His most recent novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize for fiction and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens' world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty. In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, Alan Hollinghursts The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatchers 1980s. There was the soft glare of the flash - twice - three times - a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, 'Prime Minister, would you like to dance?'

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