The Swimming-Pool Library - (Vintage International) by Alan Hollinghurst (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This controversial, darkly erotic novel of male homosexuality and promiscuity before the scourge of AIDS was "easily one of the year's (1988) most important debuts".<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of <i>The Line of Beauty</i> and <i>The Sparsholt Affair</i>. <p/> 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. <i>The Swimming-Pool Library</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Exquisite. --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"A buoyant, smart, irrepressibly sexy book . . . that has the heft and resonance of a classic modernist novel, the sprawl and surprise of an intimate memoir." --<i>The Village Voice Literary Supplement<br></i><br> "I can think of no other book that is at once so literary and so highly sexed, with the exception of <i>Lolita</i> and Genet's <i>Our Lady of the Flowers</i>." --Edmund White <p/>"<i>The Swimming-Pool Library</i> 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." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>ALAN HOLLINGHURST is the author of the novels <i>The Stranger's Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell</i>, and <i>The Line of Beauty, </i> which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.
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