The Swimming-Pool Library: A novel (Lambda Literary Award) - Brossura

Hollinghurst, Alan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679722564 ISBN 13: 9780679722564

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989

Riassunto

William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat, moves through underground bars, bath houses, and cinemas, and into the world of old Africa hand Lord Nantwitch, a world of older traditions and hidden allegiances

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Recensione

"Exquisite." —The New York Times

“A buoyant, smart, irrepressibly sexy book . . . that has the heft and resonance of a classic modernist novel, the sprawl and surprise of an intimate memoir.” —The Village Voice Literary Supplement

“I can think of no other book that is at once so literary and so highly sexed, with the exception of Lolita and Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers.” —Edmund White

“The Swimming-Pool Library beautifully welds the standard conventions of fiction to a tale of modern transgressions. It tells of impurities with shimmering elegance, of complexities with a camp-fired wit and of truths with a fiction’s solid grace.” —The New York Times Book Review

L'autore

ALAN HOLLINGHURST is the author of the novels The Stranger's Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0679722564
• ISBN 13: 9780679722564
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 352