The Swimming-Pool Library: A novel (Lambda Literary Award) -- Alan Hollinghurst, Paperback Fred Parnes James Culdaine

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The Swimming-Pool Library: A novel (Lambda Literary Award) -- Alan Hollinghurst, Paperback Fred Parnes James CuldaineThe dazzling first novel from the best selling, Booker Prize Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair. An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. The Swimming Pool Library focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and