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Gay Literature: "The Swimming Pool Library" (1988)

A gay classic. A fans? Haters?

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by Anonymousreply 5September 14, 2020 4:27 AM

Read it years ago (1990) and loved it.

by Anonymousreply 1September 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 Anonymousreply 2September 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 Anonymousreply 3September 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 Anonymousreply 4September 14, 2020 4:25 AM

Why not, r4?

by Anonymousreply 5September 14, 2020 4:27 AM
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