The Swimming-pool Library

Description:

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.

subjects: Gay men, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fiction,  Gay men,  Interpersonal relations,  Sexuality,  Aristocracy (Social class),  LGBTQ novels,  Stonewall Book Awards,  Lambda Literary Awards,  Lambda Literary Award Winner,  English literature,  Fiction, lgbtq+, gay,  England, fiction,  London (england), fiction,  collection:stonewall_book_award=pre-1990_winner

Places: London (England),  England,  London