It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent inthe matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room inthe Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new ToryMP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine.Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will bethe troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasyresponsibility. At the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nickbecomes caught up in the Feddens' world. In an era of endlesspossibility, Nick finds himself able to pursue his own privateobsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power andriches are to his friends.
【作者简介】
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of three novels, TheSwimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star and The Spell. He hadreceived the Somerset Maugham Award and the James Tait BlackMemorial Prize for FIction, and he was shortlisted for the BookerPrize in 1994. He lives in London.
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