num_pages: 304
description: This darkly erotic 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.
language: English
title: The Swimming-Pool Library
titlecomplete: The Swimming-Pool Library
genres: Fiction, Queer, LGBT, British Literature, Gay Fiction, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Gay
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 Books