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The Swimming-Pool Library
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The Swimming-Pool Library Paperback - 1989

by Hollinghurst, Alan

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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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Vintage, 1989-09-18. Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x7. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked.
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  • Title The Swimming-Pool Library
  • Author Hollinghurst, Alan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1989-09-18
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2309140018
  • 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)
  • 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.

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"Easily one of [1988's] most important debuts...A buoyant, smart, irrepressibly sexy book...that has the heft and resonance of a classic modernist novel, the sprawl and surprise of an intimate memoir." -- Village Voice Literary Supplement"The swimming-pool library beautifully welds the standard conventions of fiction to a tale of modern transgressions. It tells of impurities with shimmering elegance, of complexities with a camp-fired wit and of truths with a fiction's solid grace." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Absorbing and delightful...some of the brightest, smartest writing to come along in a long time." -- Houston Post

About the author

ALAN HOLLINGHURST is the author of the novels The Stranger's Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

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