num_pages: 352
description: 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 &amp; 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.
language: English
title: The Swimming-Pool Library
titlecomplete: The Swimming-Pool Library
genres: Literary Fiction, LGBT, Novels, Gay, Queer, Literature, British Literature, Gay Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 9929
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Stonewall Book Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Somerset Maugham Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Debut Fiction and Nominee for Gay Fiction
publisher: Vintage