Alan Hollinghurst

The Swimming-Pool Library

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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.
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  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted5 years ago
    It was hard to convince them that not all peers-just as not all queers-know each other
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    Then I felt childlike myself, very pink & white, laughable in my indignation, & my authority much too big for me, as if bought in anticipation of my ‘growing into it’
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted5 years ago
    The buildings, prefabricated units slotted and pinned together, showed a systematic disregard for comfort and relief, for anything the eye or heart might fix on as homely or decent

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