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What is The Swimming-Pool Library about?

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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.

Question 2

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Swimming-Pool Library?

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Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre

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Where can I read a sample of The Swimming-Pool Library?

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You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780394570259

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Is The Swimming-Pool Library part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?

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Yes it is a part of series Vintage International

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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Swimming-Pool Library?

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Alan Hollinghurst

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Who is the Publisher of the book The Swimming-Pool Library?

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?

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The Swimming-Pool Library is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780394570259) and hardcover(ISBN 9780701132828) and paperback(ISBN 9781784870317) and paperback(ISBN 9780679722564) and paperback(ISBN 9780099268130) and paperback(ISBN 9780099468363) and paperback(ISBN 9781529113839) and ebook(ISBN 9780307806604)

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