An edition of The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)

The swimming-pool library

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An edition of The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)

The swimming-pool library

1st Vintage international ed.

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.5 (2 ratings) ·
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  • 3 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

A literary sensation and bestseller in both England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of gay life before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with total 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.

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
336

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Subjects

Gay men, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, Gay men, Interpersonal relations, Sexuality, Aristocracy (Social class), LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, English literature, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, England, fiction, London (england), fiction

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2006, Vintage
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1989, De Arbeiderspers
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1989, Vintage Books
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1988, Penguin
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1988, Northwestern University Press
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Published in
New York
Series
Vintage international

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6058.O4467 S9 1989, PR6058.O4467S9 1989

The Physical Object

Pagination
336 p. ;
Number of pages
336

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2216767M
ISBN 10
0679722564
LCCN
89040113
OCLC/WorldCat
19811478
Library Thing
124247
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B00085O1WU
Better World Books
BWBM51784459
Goodreads
30106

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