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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Swimming Pool Library
• Author: Alan Hollinghurst
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780679722564
• ISBN: 0679722564
• ID: 09233284
• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Weight: 290 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 133 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. September 1989

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