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Queer Reads--THE SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY

  • Lost City Books 2467 18th Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20009 United States (map)

Queer Book Club will be meeting Wednesday, May 14th at 7 pm; we will be reading The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst.

About the book:

The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair.

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. The Swimming-Pool Library 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.