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A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. "Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything" (Harpers & Queen), it focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand, searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.
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The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
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- Released
- 1988
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- Title
- The Swimming-Pool Library
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0140116109
- ISBN13
- 9780140116106
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Erotica, Relationships, LGBTQ+, British Literature, England, Sexuality & Intimacy, Great Britain, Africa, Writing, London, Diaries, Homosexuality
- Original title
- The swimming pool library
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. "Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything" (Harpers & Queen), it focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand, searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.