The Swimming Pool Library (Vintage Blue)

The Swimming Pool Library (Vintage Blue)

by Alan Hollinghurst (Author)

Synopsis

This novel centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Aug 2004

ISBN 10: 0099468360
ISBN 13: 9780099468363

Author Bio
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. He was on the staff of the Times Literary Supplement from 1982 to 1995.