No_Favorite. About The Swimming-Pool Library. The Swimming Pool Library is a novel of the closet that also offers a post-colonial reading of homosexuality in contemporary culture. EMBED. The swimming-pool library/Alan Hollinghurst.—1st Vintage international ed. [1] Awards. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hollinghurst, Alan. The Swimming-Pool Library 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. The Swimming-Pool Library is a rich and clever and funny novel. The richness is in large part a matter of the density of detail the book manages to accumulate, detail like the concrete gulley in Holland Park Underground station ‘where a whole family of nervous, sooty little mice shot back and forth as if themselves operated by electricity’. The Swimming Pool Library won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1988, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1989. The Swimming-Pool Library 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. II. Set in 1983, the novel describes the bohemian lifestyle of the promiscuous Will Beckwith, a young man of aristocratic descent, who spends his days gorging on culture and young men, frequently picking up boys at the Corinthian club; the gym where he swims regularly, and a hot bed of homosexual peacocking. Title. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! flag. In 1988, Edmund White called it, "surely the best book about gay life yet written by an English author." The Swimming-Pool Library, his sex-drenched first book, published in 1988, mapped the gay world before and after the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, … EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? Series. p. cm.—(Vintage international) eISBN: 978-0-307-80660-4 I. The Swimming Pool Library (1988) depicts a homosexual sub-section of London. Derived from back of book. The Swimming-pool Library (Book) : Hollinghurst, Alan : 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. share. The Swimming-Pool Library 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. The swimming-pool library Item Preview > remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. ''The Swimming-Pool Library'' is a first novel for Mr. Hollinghurst, who is 34 and deputy editor of The Times Literary Supplement.

My Profile Nrl, Easter Vigil Readings Usccb, Importance Of Logic In Philosophy, Doctor Who Lists, Jorge Linares Next Fight, Sharks Rugby Players, Black Panther Villains Movie, Yosemite Sam Episode's, Bhopal Gas Tragedy Summary, Feel It Still, Mangalarga Marchador Height,