How not to adapt a great novel
The new theatre adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty loses the beauty
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Nicholas Harris
Nicholas Harris is the Ideas editor of the New Statesman. He has previously been a dishwasher, a bookseller, a waiter and a trolley-parker. He awaits his opportunity to be a pirate, a poet, a pawn or a king. nicholas.harris@newstatesman.co.uk
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