Ebook {Epub PDF} The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

 · The Swimming Pool Library is the story of William Beckwith, a young, upperclass, gay layabout who strikes up a friendship with the elderly Charles Nantwich. After saving Nantwich’s life during a botched cruising session Beckwith is offered the job of chronicling Nantwich’s life including his more subversive sexual exploits during his youth and his time in Africa. Set in the pre-AIDS London of the early 80's, The Swimming-Pool Library vividly depicts the free-spirited camaraderie of openly gay men (particularly the relationship between Lord Nantwich and Will) while examining issues pertaining to class, racism, police entrapment and homophobia, all presented with an edgy urgency that pulls the reader further into the tale Alan Hollinghurst so skillfully weaves/5().  · Set in the pre-AIDS London of the early 80's, The Swimming-Pool Library vividly depicts the free-spirited camaraderie of openly gay men (particularly the relationship between Lord Nantwich and Will) while examining issues pertaining to class, racism, police entrapment and homophobia, all presented with an edgy urgency that pulls the reader further into the tale Alan Hollinghurst so skillfully /5.

In Alan Hollinghurst's debut novel, The Swimming-Pool Library, Will, a promiscuous, self-absorbed layabout, finds his upper-class world both shaken and stirred after he saves the life of an elderly gay aristocrat in a public lavatory. Review: The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst. The Swimming Pool Library () depicts a homosexual sub-section of London. Set in , 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. Free download or read online The Swimming-Pool Library pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in February 22nd , and was written by Alan Hollinghurst. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in ebook format. The main characters of this fiction, lgbt story are.

The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst review — a tale of gay sexual abandon John Maier admires this stylish novel which captures a world of unbridled gay sexual freedom before the. The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst • BookLikes (ISBN). Alan Hollinghurst was born in He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the s, The Swimming-Pool Library (), and was selected as one of the Best Young British Novelists His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.