• The Great Political Fictions: The Line of Beauty

  • Jul 11 2024
  • Length: 54 mins
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The Great Political Fictions: The Line of Beauty

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  • Our political fictions series returns with 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.


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