Loved itthe quality of the writing it is fantastic a writing style that is just catchy but it's it's intelligent and it's just it keeps you looking for more learned a lot about gay men in this book and yeah it was just really interesting
The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)
Others: Positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781784870317
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- 304 pages
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