The Swimming Pool Library

Name: The Swimming Pool Library
Author: Alan Hollinghurst

by Alan Hollinghurst

A closeted aristocrat's summer romance and dangerous desire drive obsession in 1983

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Alan Hollinghurst

British novelist whose The Line of Beauty won the Man Booker Prize and is a devastating portrait of Thatcherite England seen through a gay protagonist. His elegant, sensuous prose and formal mastery are admired even by those who resist his subject matter. He is one of the finest stylists in contemporary British fiction.

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