The Swimming-Pool Library
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A literary sensation and bestseller in both England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of gay life before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with total 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.
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I first read this in 89 back when I was 19 (young and innocent) and 2nd time around (old and cynical) I think I enjoyed it more. I've known a few people like the hideous Will Beckworth who surround themselves with people who think they are some kind of god, he quite likes his friends but gets bored of them easily , and will drop them at sniff of a quick shag in the bogs. The story of Charles Nantwich is the best thing about this book and offers a glimpse at the underbelly of gay life in early 2oth century Britain. 3.5 rounded up.
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