# The Swimming-Pool Library

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- Authors: [Alan Hollinghurst](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-hollinghurst)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-031-7
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2015-07-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Young, gay, 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, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich’s diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will’s own privileged existence.