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The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)

by Alan Hollinghurst

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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.

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823.914Literature › English › English fiction › Modern Period › 1901-1999 › 1945-1999

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PR6058.O4467Language and Literature › English › English Literature › 1961-2000

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