Daphne sawle, a key figure in the book, whom we follow from a poetically inclined 16yearold to a tough old boot of 83, is about to be interviewed by wouldbe biographer paul bryant. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst kirkus. Alan hollinghurst is currently considered a single author. The item may have identifying markings on it or show other signs of previous use. The swimmingpool library read online free by alan hollinghurst. The swimming pool library by hollinghurst, alan 1998 paperback. The swimming pool library by alan hollinghurst abebooks. The swimmingpool library ends with her conservative partys 1983 landslide reelection. Alan hollinghurst is not a prolific novelist, with only five novels to his name, but he is an important one. Alan hollinghurst is the author of five novels, the swimmingpool library, the folding star, the spell, the line of beauty and the strangers child.
While at oxford he shared a house with andrew motion. Alan hollinghurst was born in stroud in gloucestershire, england in 1954 and was educated at magdalen college, oxford. Publication date 1988 publisher penguin collection. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. 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. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst the 635th. O ne line from alan hollinghursts new book, the strangers child, is lodged in my head as i arrive at his hampstead flat. Hollinghurst began his career in 1988 with a groundbreaking debut, the swimming pool library, and has since written five celebrated novels, winning the man booker prize with the line of.
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The swimming pool library by hollinghurst, alan 1998. His second novel, the folding star, won the james tait black memorial prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 booker prize. Finally, will borrows trashy homoerotic novels from one of the lifeguards at the corinthian club. He was on the staff of the times literary supplement from 1982 to 1995. The novel is exquisite, very smartly titled swimming pool implies the superficial aspect of the gay scene, library implies all that is intelligent and witty.
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Feb 22, 1988 a wonderful romp around londontown, arguably the gayest city in all of europe. The swimming pool library is a multifaceted gay contemporary novel worth the pickup. Publication date 1988 topics gay men fiction, london england fiction. Alan hollinghurst bestselling fiction and nonfiction books. The swimmingpool library is a perfect debut, in that it arrives confidently, with a fully formed style and bank of themes that the author would go on to explore for years to come attitude. Alan hollinghurst s the swimming pool library is considered a classic of gay literature and justly so. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the swimmingpool library.
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Sep 25, 2017 the sparsholt affair by alan hollinghurst is published by picador. Alan hollinghurst is the author of the swimmingpool library and the spell. In 1994, he won the james tait black memorial prize for the folding star. Mar 12, 2018 if youve not read hollinghurst, the place to begin is probably with his exquisite first novel, the swimmingpool library 1988, or the line of beauty. The swimming pool library is a perfect debut, in that it arrives confidently, with a fully formed style and bank of themes that the author would go on to explore for years to come attitude. The swimming pool library by hollinghurst, alan 1998 paperback hollinghurst, alan on. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst librarything. His first, the swimmingpool library, burst onto the scene the gay one and the literary alike in 1988 just as thatchers third government was introducing the section 28 laws.
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