The Great Political Fictions: The Line of Beauty
<p>Our political fictions series returns with Alan Hollinghurst’s&nbsp;<em>The Line of Beauty</em>&nbsp;(2004), which is set between Thatcher’s two dominant general election victories of 1983 and 1987.&nbsp;A novel about the intersection between gay life and Tory life, high politics and low conduct, beauty and betrayal, it explores the price of power and the risks of liberation.&nbsp;It also contains perhaps the greatest of all fictional portrayals of a real-life prime minster: Thatcher dancing the night away.</p><br><p>Sign up now to PPF+ to get all our bonus episodes along with ad-free listening: coming soon for PPF+ subscribers Robert Saunders on his favourite political novel plus a special episode on&nbsp;<em>Evita</em>:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ppfideas.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.ppfideas.com</a></p><br><p>Next time: Curtis Sittenfeld re-imagines Laura Bush in&nbsp;<em>American Wife</em></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
Past Present Future · David Runciman
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Show Notes
Our political fictions series returns with Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty (2004), which is set between Thatcher’s two dominant general election victories of 1983 and 1987. A novel about the intersection between gay life and Tory life, high politics and low conduct, beauty and betrayal, it explores the price of power and the risks of liberation. It also contains perhaps the greatest of all fictional portrayals of a real-life prime minster: Thatcher dancing the night away.
Sign up now to PPF+ to get all our bonus episodes along with ad-free listening: coming soon for PPF+ subscribers Robert Saunders on his favourite political novel plus a special episode on Evita: www.ppfideas.com
Next time: Curtis Sittenfeld re-imagines Laura Bush in American Wife
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