A gay classic. A fans? Haters?
Gay Literature: "The Swimming Pool Library" (1988)
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 14, 2020 4:27 AM |
Read it years ago (1990) and loved it.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 29, 2015 12:36 AM |
Started re reading it last year in a "keep or toss" day with my stacks of books. He obsesses so much about the lover's blackness; tiresome. Tossed it.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 29, 2015 1:07 AM |
[quote]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.
It sounds good.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 14, 2020 4:17 AM |
It is good. But its characters and structure mean it won't be turned into a movie or mini-series.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 14, 2020 4:25 AM |
Why not, r4?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 14, 2020 4:27 AM |