When reading Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty you could stop on any page and be met with a chorus of beautiful sentences, each word hitting the exact right notes. Much like the novel’s protagonist, Nick Guest, the reader is put under a spell and drawn into a world of many beautiful things.
To read words written by Ocean Vuong is to be reminded of the gift that writing truly is. His debut novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) is a memorising meditation on family, forgiveness, the power of the past and the power of the future.
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