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'The Line of Beauty' wins Booker

October 20, 2004 08:56 IST
Last Updated: October 20, 2004 09:00 IST


Alan Hollinghurst's novel, 'The Line of Beauty,' a tale of drugs, power and money, has won the Man Booker Prize.

Alan Hollinghurst"It's very amazing to me that the long, solitary process of writing a novel should lead to a moment like this," Hollinghurst said.

The book is the tale of Nick Guest, a gay Oxford graduate, who rents a room in the home of a powerful politician.

The author lives in London.


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