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The Swimming Pool Library

By: Alan Hollinghurst
Narrated by: Samuel West
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 This novel 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.©2006 Alan Hollinghurst (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction

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"West has a lot of fun with the waspishly clever dialogue, and, provided you ensure it's not overheard by listeners of delicate sensibilities, this is terrific to listen to." (Karen Robertson, The Sunday Times)
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This is a truely wonderful experience --sumptuous, erotic, witty, poignant, moving and wildly funny in parts. i am not generally attracted to books about upper class Brits but this is writing of the highest order, offering insight into gay life and into the history of our cultural politics more generally. Hollinghurst writes supremely well about sex, emotion, social life, aesthetics, pornography, poetry, opera. The breadth, depth, sensitivity and command of language is just stunning.
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Glorious! Extraordinary writing, wonderful reader

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