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The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Swimming-Pool Library about?
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.
Who reads The Swimming-Pool Library?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780701132828
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (5,847 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Swimming-pool Library (1994)
- The Swimming-Pool Library : A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) (2011)
- The Swimming-Pool Library : A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) (1989)
- The Swimming-pool Library (2015)
- The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)
- The Swimming-Pool Library : A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) (1988)
- The Swimming-pool Library (2006)
- De zwembadbibliotheek (1989)
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