British author Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty yesterday
won the Booker Prize, the prestigious literary accolade for
the best novel of contemporary fiction published in the Commonwealth
and Ireland. Hollinghurst's gay novel about Britain in
the Thatcherite 1980s took the GBP50,000 award (US$90 000)
leaving behind 21 other books.
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