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Hollinghurst, Alan

 
9781784870317: The Swimming-Pool Library
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ISBN 10: 1784870315 ISBN 13: 9781784870317
Verlag: Random House UK Ltd, 2015

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Two gay lives, separated by class, age and history, begin to overlap. Hollinghurst turns biography into a portrait of desire, memory and inheritance.

Young 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 is Lord Nantwich, who is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to look through Nantwich's diaries and finds himself drawn into a life that reaches back through Edwardian England, empire and the long history of gay repression.

As Will uncovers Nantwich's story, bitter truths begin to emerge about his own privileged existence, his family and the freedoms he takes for granted.

Hollinghurst sets the pleasures of 1980s gay London against the lives that had to be hidden, prosecuted or half-erased before it. The result is a queer literary novel of unusual poise and force, alert to beauty, appetite and the uneasy inheritance of freedom.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. His most recent novel, The Sparsholt Affair, was published in 2017.

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Verlag
Random House UK Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784870315
ISBN 13 
9781784870317
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
415
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