The Swimming-Pool Library The Swimming-Pool Library

The Swimming-Pool Library

A novel (Lambda Literary Award)

    • 3.8 • 39 Ratings
    • $13.99
    • $13.99

Publisher Description

The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair.

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. The Swimming-Pool Library focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and Lord Nantwich, an elderly man searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1989
September 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
7.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Yavin4_76 ,

Erotic and intriguing

Hollinghurst's debut novel and a beautiful read. Set in early 80s London it delves into the never ending sexual appetite of gay protagonist Will and his relationship and revelations with Lord Nantwich who he befriends by a near tragic accident.

Loved the gritty realism and poetic visions Hollinghurst paints of this period London. The city I know well comes to life with every line of text. And also offers something I didn't know both about the city, its history and gay community.

Twists and turns delight and much intrigue developed of the locations of both the Swimming Pool Library and Nantwich's forgotten London Street in his cellar.

A story of its time that will bring recognition to gay readers and enjoyment and drama for all who read this exquisite and engaging work.

Marc Checkley

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