The Swimming-Pool Library - Softcover

Hollinghurst, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140116109 ISBN 13: 9780140116106

Publisher: Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

Paperback (cover different from first one shown)slight edge wear by Alan Hollinghurst-Pub:-Penguin 1st ed 1998-presents 288 slightly age toned pages..The first major novel in Britain to put gay life in its modern place & context-Book condition:-good tight copy.#9

About this title

Product Description:

This work centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young, gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich who is searching for someone to write his biography.

Review:

"The first major novel in Britain to put gay life in its modern place and context... A historic novel and historic début" (Guardian)

"Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly funny" (Daily Telegraph)

"The tautness and energy of Alan Hollinghurst's novel derive from its ambiguous status a it shimmers somewhere between pastoral romance and sulphurous confession, between an affectionate and credible rendering of contemporary mores and lurid melodrama...classic English prose...surely the best book about gay life yet written by an English author" (Sunday Times)

"Beautifully welds the standard conventions of fiction to a tale of modern transgressions.It tells of impurities with shimmering elegance, of complexities with a camp-fired wit and of truths with a fiction's solid grace" (New York Times Book Review)

"The Swimming-Pool Library is a perfect debut, in that it arrives confidently, with a fully formed style and bank of themes that the author would go on to explore for years to come" (Attitude)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140116109
• ISBN 13: 9780140116106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304