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The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst
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Description for The Swimming-Pool Library
Paperback. Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich's diaries. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 344.
Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich’s diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will’s own privileged existence.
Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich’s diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will’s own privileged existence.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
305g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784870317
SKU
V9781784870317
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99-99
About Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker ... Read more
Reviews for The Swimming-Pool Library
The first major novel in Britain to put gay life in its modern place and context... A historic novel and historic début
Guardian
Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly funny
Daily Telegraph
The tautness and energy of Alan Hollinghurst's novel derive from its ambiguous status a it shimmers somewhere between pastoral romance and ... Read more
Guardian
Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly funny
Daily Telegraph
The tautness and energy of Alan Hollinghurst's novel derive from its ambiguous status a it shimmers somewhere between pastoral romance and ... Read more