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 (eng)
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 . - Penguin Books, 1989 . - 288 pages.
ISBN : 978-0-14-011610-6
Langues : Anglais (eng)

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.