The Swimming-Pool Library
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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.
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Alan Hollinghurst. (2011). The Swimming-Pool Library. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Alan Hollinghurst. 2011. The Swimming-Pool Library. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)Alan Hollinghurst. The Swimming-Pool Library. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.
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August 5, 1988
On entering a London public lavatory in blithe pursuit of quick, anonymous sex, beautiful and roguish young aristocrat William Beckwith isconfronted instead with an ancient, doddering member of the British House of Lords who, after muttering an incoherent string of polite non sequiturs, promptly keels over at his feet in embarrassed but undeniable coronary arrest. After saving the old man's life, Will is invited to tea by the grateful and slightly senile Lord Nantwich, who, surprised by Will's impressive lineage and appalled at his state of idle unemployment, engages the young man to write the Nantwich life story. Thus begins the unusual relationship that forms the core of this funny, sad and beautifully written novel. The Swimming Pool Library weaves a rich and fascinating tapestry of Britain's gay subculture spanning pre-World War I through the sexually abandoned early '80s, stopping short at the doorstep of AIDS. Hollinghurst's prose is fresh, witty and wise, and his ever-surprising, sinuously unfurling story is told with insouciant grace and unabashed sexuality. BOMC and QPBC alternates. (September) .
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