Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst Paperback Book

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Author: Alan Hollinghurst

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Published: Sep 1989

Genre: Fiction - Gay

Retail Price: $16.95

Pages: 352

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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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