Description
Product ID: | 9781784870317 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Swimming-Pool Library |
Authors: | Author: Alan Hollinghurst |
Page Count: | 432 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-07-02 |