Nick Guest, a young man from a poor family, at the invitation of his university friend, settles in his luxurious London house, in the family of a member of the British Parliament. The golden 80s reign in England, when drugs and corrupt sex are not yet associated in the minds of young playmakers with the problem of AIDS. Nick, a connoisseur of music, painting, and literature, is a man of non-traditional sexual orientation and plunges into a whirlpool of dangerous love adventures. Aristocratic brilliance and hypocrisy, intellectual snobbery and hypocrisy, tender feelings and harsh rules of the social game... This novel is about the unattainability of dreams, the fragility of beauty in a world ruled by success. In Great Britain, literary critics value Alan Hollinghurst (b. 1954) as a master of subtle , exquisite prose. Back in 1994, his novel The Wrong Star was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. And 10 years later, “Line of Beauty” received this award.