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The swimming pool library weaves a rich and fascinating tapestry of britains gay subculture spanning preworld war i through the sexually abandoned early 80s, stopping short at the doorstep of. Alan hollinghurst focuses on the friendship of two men. September 30, 2010 creators alan hollinghurst author. The swimming pool library is a 1988 novel by alan hollinghurst. Readers will have to resist the temptation to hurry up in order to find out what happens. 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. Jul 02, 2015 in the end, the swimming pool library just seems to peter out, and whatever insight into his characters hollinghurst had earlier in the book seems to get a little lost. The swimming pool library vancouver island regional. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst overdrive. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, the swimmingpool library, and was selected as one of the best of young british novelists 1993. Alan hollinghurst is the author of the novels the strangers child, the swimming pool library, the folding star, the spell, and the line of beauty, which won the man booker prize and was a finalist for the national book critics circle award. The swimming pool library vancouver island regional library. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the swimming pool library vintage international. In a crumbling mansion, two sisters hide from the world, afraid for their lives. The swimmingpool library vintage international kindle. David forest with hugo bolton, directed by scott lyman. Forster award of the american academy of arts and letters, and the james tait black. But after the crash of 29, when lois and judiths father killed himself to escape his debts, the. Louise is there with her daughters, and while the children splash and shriek in the cool blue waters, she basks in the sunshine, att.
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