Ebook {Epub PDF} The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst was born in He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the s, The Swimming-Pool Library (), and was selected as one of the Best Young British Novelists His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize/5(). About 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 www.doorway.ru:  · ALAN HOLLINGHURST is the author of the novels The Stranger's Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Alan Hollinghurst. 8, ratings reviews. A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is 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. Alan Hollinghurst was born in He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker www.doorway.ru novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in Alan Hollinghurst was born in He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the s, The Swimming-Pool Library (), and was selected as one of the Best Young British Novelists

About 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 is a novel by Alan Hollinghurst Plot introduction. In London, Will, a privileged, gay, sexually irresistible year-old, saves. Set in the pre-AIDS London of the early 80's, The Swimming-Pool Library vividly depicts the free-spirited camaraderie of openly gay men (particularly the relationship between Lord Nantwich and Will) while examining issues pertaining to class, racism, police entrapment and homophobia, all presented with an edgy urgency that pulls the reader further into the tale Alan Hollinghurst so skillfully weaves.