Title: The Swimming-Pool Library
First published: October 1, 1994
Description: 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.
Subjects: Gay men, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, Gay men, Interpersonal relations, Sexuality, Aristocracy (Social class), LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, English literature, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, collection:stonewall_book_award=pre-1990_winner
Places: London (England), England, London