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The Swimming Pool Library

Published
Aug 1988
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General Fiction General Fiction
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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.

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Jul 1989 Penguin ISBN13 9780140116106 ISBN10 0140116109
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Sep 1989 Vintage ISBN13 9780679722564 ISBN10 0679722564
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First Edition Aug 1988 Random House ISBN13 9780394570259 ISBN10 0394570251
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Sep 2011 Knopf ISBN13 9780307806604 ISBN10 030780660X
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