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9780394570259
The Swimming-Pool Library
by Alan Hollinghurst
About this item
- Condition: Good
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- Provider Rating: 75%
- Ships From: Tucson, AZ
- Shipping: Standard
- Comments: Hardcover. NOT Ex-library. Good condition - front free end paper is cut at a diagonal. Dust jacket included. Minor shelfwear to dust jacket. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780394570259
- ISBN: 0394570251
- Edition: First Edition
- Publication Date: 1988
- Publisher: Random House
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SUMMARY
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is 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. "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.Alan Hollinghurst is the author of 'The Swimming-Pool Library', published 1988 under ISBN 9780394570259 and ISBN 0394570251.
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