"The Swimming Pool Library" 1988 Hollinghurst, Alan

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HOLLINGHURST, Alan

[288] pp.

Random House

1988

9 3/8" x 6 1/2"

The Swimming-Pool Library is a 1988 novel by … Read more HOLLINGHURST, Alan

[288] pp.

Random House

1988

9 3/8" x 6 1/2"

The Swimming-Pool Library is a 1988 novel by Alan Hollinghurst. The novel won two awards including Somerset Maugham Award 1988 followed by American Academy of Arts and Letters E.M. Forster Award 1989.

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In 1983 London, Will, a privileged, gay, sexually irresistible 25-year-old, saves the life of an elderly aristocrat who has a heart-attack in a public lavatory. This chance meeting ultimately requires Will to re-evaluate his sense of the past and his family's history. See less