The Line of Beauty with Alan Hollinghurst Theatre & Performing Arts

Celebrate and explore the world of Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty, as Late Night Library Club goes back t

Follow the path of the book’s central character, naïve London newcomer Nick Guest, as he navigates an unfamiliar world of cottages and cocaine, academia and AIDS, and rubs shoulders (and more) with rent boys and MPs.
The evening kicks off with an optional hour-long walking tour around and about the event venue Sutton House, a National Trust Tudor landmark, curated by Queer Tours of London and starting at 5.30pm. They will draw out Hackney’s queer stories amongst the house’s many cracks and noonies.
The main event follows at 7pm in the atmospheric Sutton House. Try your hand - we said hand - at Starkers Life Drawing, participate in a photoshoot with Damien Frost for Ogee, the magazine established by Nick and his friends, and enjoy poetry and performance from Richard Scott, Ted Rogers, George Hicks and a very special guest.
‘From the start I’ve tried to write about gay life from a gay perspective … unapologetically and naturally’. In conversation with author Jonathan Kemp, Alan Hollinghurst will discuss the writing and reception of The Line of Beauty, his memories of its 1980s setting, what it means and historically has meant to be ‘a gay writer’, and reveal some details of his new book, The Sparsholt Affair. Gay’s the Word will be selling copies of The Sparsholt Affair and Alan will conduct a book signing earlier on in the evening.
One of the most memorable set-pieces of The Line of Beauty is the high-society soirée of the Fedden’s anniversary which Nick and his friends gatecrash. 1986 may be long gone, but tonight’s event will culminate in a re-staging the glitziest party of yesteryear. The fashions are Tory Glam, and there are some very high-powered guests in attendance…
Dressing up is strongly encouraged.

EDITOR’S NOTES
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of six novels, including The Swimming-Pool Librar

Venue: National Trust - Sutton House, 2 Homerton High Street, Hackney, E9 6JQ

Price

standard: GBP 21.50
standard + walking tour: GBP 31.00
walking tour only: GBP 10.00
Student or Nat Trust member: GBP 16.00

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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/168525-0

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