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The swimming-pool library

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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.

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Vintage Classics
1784870315 / 9781784870317
Paperback / softback
823.92
02/07/2015
United Kingdom
English
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415 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1988.