The Swimming-Pool Library - Couverture souple

Hollinghurst, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140116109 ISBN 13 : 9780140116106

Editeur : Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

This work centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young, gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich who is searching for someone to write his biography.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Easily one of [1988's] most important debuts...A buoyant, smart, irrepressibly sexy book...that has the heft and resonance of a classic modernist novel, the sprawl and surprise of an intimate memoir." -- Village Voice Literary Supplement"The swimming-pool library beautifully welds the standard conventions of fiction to a tale of modern transgressions. It tells of impurities with shimmering elegance, of complexities with a camp-fired wit and of truths with a fiction's solid grace." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Absorbing and delightful...some of the brightest, smartest writing to come along in a long time." -- Houston Post

Quatrième de couverture

‘The first major novel in Britain to put gay life in its modern place and context... A historic novel’ Guardian

Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich’s diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will’s own privileged existence.

See also: The Well of Loneliness

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140116109
• ISBN 13: 9780140116106
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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