The Swimming-Pool Library (Vintage International)

Type

Book

Authors

Alan HOLLINGHURST

ISBN 10

0679722564

Tags

Gay, Literature & Fiction, Gay Fiction, AIDS, Romance, Friendship, African, Sex

Description

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. - from Amzon

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