The Swimming-Pool Library

The 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 promiscuity, and Lord Nantwich, an elderly man searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/19/1989
ISBN: 9780679722564
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.23w x 0.81d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner