The Swimming Pool Library

Author: Alan Hollinghurst

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Price : $19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781529113839
Publisher : Penguin Random House
Imprint : Vintage
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Weight (g) : 0.368317
Publication date : 01 April 2021
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Availability date : 01 January 2021
Out of print date : 01 January 2021
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Author : Alan Hollinghurst
Series : Vintage Blue Ser.
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 2101
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.9/14
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Pages : 432
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Postponed Indefinitely

Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich's diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will's own privileged existence.

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