The Swimming-Pool Library - Couverture souple

Hollinghurst, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679722564 ISBN 13 : 9780679722564

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989

Synopsis

RO60066214. THE SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY. 1989. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 336 pages. Annotations en page de garde.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Exquisite." —The New York Times

“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.” —The Village Voice Literary Supplement

“I can think of no other book that is at once so literary and so highly sexed, with the exception of Lolita and Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers.” —Edmund White

“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

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0679722564
• ISBN 13: 9780679722564
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352