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...Alan Hollinghurst does not expect to be understood. In Chicago, the previous stop on a promotional tour of his 2004 novel “The Line of Beauty,” his audience was reduced to six when the book discussion conflicted with a White Sox game. And at the outset, this final stop in Cambridge portends another embarrassing disconnect between author and reader: “a gay British guy and a straight American teenager walk into a café” (Algiers, to be precise) sounds more like a weak joke than the convening of kindred spirits...
Depending on your choice of friends, bookstores, magazines and professors, you may have heard that the novel is ailing, dying, or dead. If so, rest easy: you have been misinformed. “The Line of Beauty,” by Alan Hollinghurst, was last year’s undeniable proof that truly magnificent novels are still alive and kicking—or, in the case of “The Line,” singing.And if any doubt about the vitality of the novel lingers in your mind, such skepticism will be washed away next Friday, Oct. 28, when...
Friday, Oct. 28. “The Line of Beauty.” Alan Hollinghurst, the winner of the 2004 Booker Prize, reads from his novel about Thatcher-era London. 6 p.m. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. Free tickets are required and can be picked up at the Harvard Book Store information desk...
AWARDED. ALAN HOLLINGHURST, 50, British author; the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, the first novel with an overtly gay theme to win the literary award; in London. Of Hollinghurst's evocative tale of a young hedonist in Thatcherite London, Man Booker panel chairman Chris Smith said, "The fact it can be considered as a perfectly valid part of contemporary fiction without regarding [gay relationships] as unique shows how much times have changed...
...decided that it would set a dangerous precedent to withdraw Hamm's medal, won at the Summer Olympics in Athens, despite a scoring error that cost bronze medalist Yang a crucial one-tenth of a point, which would have been enough to earn him the gold. AWARDED. to ALAN HOLLINGHURST, 50, British author; the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, the first novel with an overtly gay theme to win the literary award; in London. Of Hollinghurst's evocative tale of a young hedonist in Thatcherite London, Man Booker panel chairman Chris Smith said, "The fact...
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