The Line of Beauty review " Hollinghurst's Gatsby-esque social satire is a class act
Almeida theatre, LondonJack Holden has elegantly adapted Alan Hollinghurst's Booker winner about class envy, gay culture and political scandal in 80s Britain How to adapt a novel as big and shimmering as Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 Booker prize winner? It's a book that captures not just the hypocrisies of one elite, Thatcher-loving family but the hypocrisies of a whole era, with power and politics bristling beside the h…