Titre : | The Swimming Pool Library | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | Alan Hollinghurst, Auteur | Editeur : | Penguin Books | Année de publication : | 1989 | Importance : | 288 pages | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-14-011610-6 | Langues : | Anglais | Catégories : | Genres:Erotique Littérature Littérature:- Roman
| Résumé : | 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. "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. |
The Swimming Pool Library [texte imprimé] / Alan Hollinghurst, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Penguin Books, 1989 . - 288 pages. ISBN : 978-0-14-011610-6 Langues : Anglais Catégories : | Genres:Erotique Littérature Littérature:- Roman
| Résumé : | 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. "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. |
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