The Swimming Pool Library [electronic resource]
Hollinghurst, Alan2010
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Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich's diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will's own privileged existence.
Main title:
The Swimming Pool Library [electronic resource] / Alan Hollinghurst
Author:
Hollinghurst, Alan, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Vintage Blue
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. His most recent novel, The Sparsholt Affair, was published in 2017.
ISBN:
9781409002260
Language:
English
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BRN:
2836335
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