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The Swimming-Pool Library|Alan Hollinghurst

The Swimming-Pool Library : A novel (Lambda Literary Award)

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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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679722564
  • ISBN-10: 0679722564
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: September 1989
  • Dimensions: 8.01 x 5.23 x 0.81 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.64 pounds
  • Page Count: 352

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