The Swimming Pool Library
Author | : Alan Hollinghurst |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1988 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105040881992 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.