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Bill
The Line of Beauty
—is an elegant portrait of the rise and fall of a recent Oxford graduate playing at being privileged.
—is a coming out story of said grad who does not quite come of age.
—is a British period piece during the Thatcher reign.
—is an exposé of useless pedantry
—shows that a social class, by any name, is a social class
—is reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh in prose and mood

I read this after seeing the movie, so had pictures in my mind of the characters. It did not ruin the book for me. I
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