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The Swimming-Pool Library Paperback - 1989
by Hollinghurst, Alan
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- Paperback
This controversial, darkly erotic novel of male homosexuality and promiscuity before the scourge of AIDS was "easily one of the year's (1988) most important debuts".
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- Title The Swimming-Pool Library
- Author Hollinghurst, Alan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1989-09-19
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0679722564_new
- ISBN 9780679722564 / 0679722564
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.23 x 0.81 in (20.35 x 13.28 x 2.06 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects London (England) - Fiction, Gay men - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89040113
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the jacket flap
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.