About this book
A literary sensation and bestseller in both England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of gay life before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with total impunity.
“Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything” (Harpers & Queen), it 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.
Subjects
Gay men, fictionFiction, generalFictionGay menInterpersonal relationsSexualityAristocracy (Social class)LGBTQ novelsStonewall Book AwardsLambda Literary AwardsLambda Literary Award WinnerEnglish literatureFiction, lgbtq+, gayEngland, fictionLondon (england), fictioncollection:stonewall_book_award=pre-1990_winner