Swimming Pool Library
 

Swimming Pool Library

by Alan Hollinghurst

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... (read more)

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This is magnificient, perhaps the key gay English novel of its period, with the possible exception of Oscar Moore's A Matter of Life and Sex. I'm sorry to say that Hollinghurst hasn't written anything as good as this since.

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