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The title is taken from Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty, though [Alan Hollinghurst] has probably insinuated a cocaine reference in there, too. And it is in the aesthetic realm that the author ventures his own, faintly pedagogic statements: at a piano recital at [Gerald]'s house, the vivacissimamente marking for a piece by Beethoven is "marvellous", and Schubert's "streamlike" E flat major Impromptu "requires such unfaltering evenness of touch".
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A Golden Age
FICTION A golden age The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst Picador, 616pp, £16.99
Alan Hollinghurst's elegant fourth novel captures a particular kind of privileged gay lifestyle during the Thatcherite 1980s. Nick Guest...See the full content of this document
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