The Swimming-Pool Library
3.5/ 5
2 ratings
About This Book
A literary sensation and bestseller in both England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of gay life before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with total 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 Details
First Published
1988
Pages
304 pages
Rating
3.5 / 5
Ratings
2
Editions
19
Publisher
Anagrama
Language
UND, ENG, GER
Status
Published
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