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Title details for The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst - Available

The Swimming Pool Library

by Alan Hollinghurst
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Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich's diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will's own privileged existence.
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Series: Vintage Blue Publisher: Random House

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  • ISBN: 9781409002260
  • Release date: September 30, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781409002260
  • File size: 396 KB
  • Release date: September 30, 2010
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Fiction Literature LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)

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Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich's diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will's own privileged existence.
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Fiction Literature LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)