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The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

3.4/5 ( ratings)

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" , 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.

Pages: 415

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Classics

Release: July 02, 2015

ISBN: 1784870315

ISBN 13: 9781784870317

The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

3.4/5 ( ratings)

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" , 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.

Pages: 415

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Classics

Release: July 02, 2015

ISBN: 1784870315

ISBN 13: 9781784870317

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