Derived from back of book. The Swimming-pool Library (Book) : Hollinghurst, Alan : Focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand, searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions. 5 stars: 5: ''The Swimming-Pool Library'' is a first novel for Mr. Hollinghurst, who is 34 and deputy editor of The Times Literary Supplement. [1] Awards. The Swimming Pool Library. The Swimming-Pool Library is a perfect debut, in that it arrives confidently, with a fully formed style and bank of themes that the author would go on to explore for years to come, Attitude. The Swimming Pool Library (1988) depicts a homosexual sub-section of London. The Swimming Pool Library weaves a rich and fascinating tapestry of Britain's gay subculture spanning pre-World War I through the sexually abandoned early '80s, stopping short at the doorstep of AIDS. Set in 1983, 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 the Corinthian club; the gym where he swims regularly, and a hot bed of homosexual peacocking. 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. What people are saying - Write a review. In 1988, Edmund White called it, "surely the best book about gay life yet written by an English author." The Swimming-pool Library 作者 : Alan Hollinghurst 出版社: Vintage 出版年: 1998-01-03 页数: 304 定价: GBP 7.99 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780099268130 豆瓣评分 User ratings. Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. The Swimming Pool Library won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1988, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1989. The adults watch as their respective children play at the far end of the pool, one of them with a shark fin strapped to her back. An archive, a collection of ‘old’ outdoor & indoor swimming pools around the UK from an in-water perspective. About the Author. 162 likes. The Library is intended to be a collection of lesser known books for queer men, including those that slip through the cracks between well established marketplaces like literary fiction or M/M romance, lesser known classics, or books not easily identifiable as queer. The “innocent public life” that Perrotta articulates is a rare form of peace that thrives at the public pool. 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.

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