{"product_id":"the-swimmingpool-library-isbn-9780679722564","title":"The Swimming-Pool Library","description":"The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sparsholt Affair\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. \u003ci\u003eThe Swimming-Pool Library\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and Lord Nantwich, an elderly man searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.\"Exquisite.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I can think of no other book that is at once so literary and so highly sexed, with the exception of \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e and Genet’s \u003ci\u003eOur Lady of the Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e.” —Edmund White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Swimming-Pool Library\u003c\/i\u003e 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.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eALAN HOLLINGHURST is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger's Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300028371173,"sku":"NP9780679722564","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679722564.jpg?v=1767741755","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-swimmingpool-library-isbn-9780679722564","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}