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      The Swimming Pool Library

      by Alan Hollinghurst
      Published
      Aug 1988
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      304
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      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.

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      General Fiction

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      LGBTQ

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      Jul 1989 Penguin ISBN 0140116109
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