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The Swimming-Pool Library

By Alan Hollinghurst

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1989
ISBN
0679722564, 9780679722564
LCC
PR6058.O4467 S9 1989
Open Library ID
OL2216767M
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
663 kB (678428 bytes)
Edition
First vintage Intn'l Edition
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

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.

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