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Language: English
Published by Chatto and Windus LTD, London, UK, 1988
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Octavo, 292 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "£11.95." Bumping to edges of dust jacket. Age toning to textblock. Shelved in Hardcover Fiction. 1411482. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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- Title
- THE SWIMMING POOL LIBRARY
- Author
- Hollinghurst, Alan
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus LTD, London, UK
- Publication year
- 1988
- Dust jacket
- dj
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0701132825
- ISBN 13
- 9780701132828
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Dupont Circle, Literature
Alan Hollinghurst's first novel is a tour de force: a darkly erotic work that centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.
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About the Author
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. He lives in London.
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