...Pool Library), none, The Line of Beauty is a book not to be missed. Put it on the very top of your reading list, immediately.

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Such effusive praise may seem out of place for a novel whose most singular quality is its subtle delicacy. This is not the flashiest novel out there. It doesn't have the textured prose style of an Edmund White novel, or the high concept plot of a Christopher Bram novel. It's closer to a novel such as The Hours, but where Cunningham's book is a dazzling riff on Mrs. Dalloway, Hollinghurst invokes the...

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