The Line of Beauty is the name of the Booker prize-winner, a book about gay sex, snorting coke and a Thatcher-worshipping MP who indulges with his secretary. The book is a good read, and I’d recommend it highly. But The Line of Beauty also the name of a new cultural blog, inspired by the book. It is early days yet for the blog, but it is already showing some promise, with snippets about graffiti, Sotheby’s, and a discussion of memoirs written by ‘ordinary’ people. Do check it out.
You’d do better to check out http://dreyfish.blogspot.com/
Okay, I haven’t read the book so I’m just pissing in the wind here, but I wonder if there’s a political angle behind its selection for the Booker Prize? Take The Economist’s review:
I have to say I trust The Economist’s book reviews. Is the Booker Prize being used to promote an ordinary book that has a saving grace – it reminds people of the “bad old days” of Thatcherism, not to mention Tory governance?