The Swimming-Pool Library

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.

Author: Alan Hollinghurst
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/19/1989
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.23w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9780679722564
ISBN10: 0679722564
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Gay
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
ALAN HOLLINGHURST is the author of the novels The Stranger's Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.