The Swimming-Pool Library
, by HOLLINGHURST, ALANNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780679722564 | 0679722564
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 9/19/1989
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.