The swimmingpool library vintage international kindle. Publication date 1988 topics gay men fiction, london england fiction publisher random house. The swimmingpool library the summer of 1983, narrator will beckwith notes at the opening of the swimmingpool library, was to be. This is a brilliantly constructed, multilayered novel rich in both interesting characters and history. Includes bibliographic data, information about the author of the ebook, description of the ebook and other if such information is available. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, the swimming pool library, and was selected as one of the best of young british novelists 1993. This essay explores the vexed matters of race and empire in alan hollinghurst s the swimming pool library, tracing the lines of connection between colonial and contemporary constructions of otherness upon which the novel dwells.
Likely because hollinghurst writes of the world not during its zenith but looks back at it wistfully. A literary sensation and bestseller both in england and america, the swimmingpool library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of aids. Download and save all data of the swimmingpool library book in one free pdf file. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst librarything. Alan hollinghurst is the author of the novels the strangers child, the swimmingpool library, the folding star, the spell, and the line of beauty, which won the man booker prize and was a finalist for the national book critics circle award. Before the swimmingpool library, jenkins recalled in 2004, it didnt. The swimmingpool library is a perfect debut, in that it arrives confidently, with a fully formed style and bank of themes that the author would go on to explore for years to come attitude. Alan hollinghurst is not a prolific novelist, with only five novels to his name, but he is an important one. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst penguin. Alan hollinghurst is the author of the novels the strangers child, the swimming pool library, the folding star, the spell, and the line of beauty, which won the man booker prize and was a finalist for the national book critics circle award. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst kirkus.
Editions of the swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst. The dazzling first novel from the bestselling, booker prizewinning author of the line of beauty and the sparsholt affair. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, the swimming pool library 1988, and was selected as one of the best young british novelists 1993. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. This article analyses the presence of the cinema in alan hollinghurst s first novel the swimmingpool library 1988. Alan hollinghurst the swimming pool library pdf editions.
He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, the swimmingpool library, and was selected as one of the best of young british novelists 1993. Alan hollinghurst is the author of the novels the swimming pool library. The swimmingpool library vintage international kindle edition. Explaining why he chose ronald firbank 18861926 as his personal selection for the national portrait gallerys 2009 gay icons exhibition, alan hollinghurst argued that firbank is celebrated as a master of high camp, but he was also a radical technician and radical homosexualiser of the novel. Hollinghursts the swimmingpool library marcin sroczynski university of warsaw abstract. The swimming pool library, his sexdrenched first book. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst waterstones. Mar 12, 2018 if youve not read hollinghurst, the place to begin is probably with his exquisite first novel, the swimmingpool library 1988, or the line of beauty. Hollinghurst, camp and closet by serkan ertin overdrive. He has received the somerset maugham award, the james tait black memorial prize for fiction and the 2004 man booker prize.
Today were finally talking about alan hollinghursts the swimming pool library. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst the 635th. This volume analyses the terms camp and the closet in alan hollinghursts fiction, since all four of his novelsthe swimmingpool library 1988, the folding star 1993, the spell 1998, and the line of beauty 2004investigate the gay male experience throughout the. Sex and sensibility in the novels of alan hollinghurst. Narrator will beckwith is a beautiful 25yearold, supported by his doting grandfather viscount beckwith and dividing his time. According to yet another poet and tls deputy editor, alan jenkins, it wasnt the most joyful period of hollinghursts life. Not only does the novels narrator, will beckwith, read firbanks valmouth and the flower beneath the foot but firbank himself makes a cameo appearance in the diaries of the elderly lord nantwich. The swimming pool library isbn 9780099268 pdf epub.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading. Alan hollinghursts the swimmingpool library is considered a classic of gay literature and justly so. Young, gay, william beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising london for erotic encounters. Paperback the item is fairly worn but still readable. In alan hollinghursts debut novel, the swimmingpool library, will, a promiscuous, selfabsorbed layabout, finds his upperclass world both shaken and stirred. Delaware county district library ohio scanned in china.
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The item may have identifying markings on it or show other signs of previous use. This essay explores the vexed matters of race and empire in alan hollinghursts the swimmingpool library, tracing the lines of connection between colonial and contemporary constructions of otherness upon which the novel dwells. Section 28 was passed in england inbut was proposed, debated, protested, and hotly contested all through the mid. A s he was working on his sixth novel, alan hollinghurst. The swimmingpool library alan hollinghurst, samuel west on free shipping on qualifying offers.
The swimmingpool library is a perfect debut, in that it arrives. In alan hollinghursts latest, a hazy sex scandal looms over. Pdf cinema in the library on alan hollinghursts the. A literary gay novel from england that contrasts the uninhibited preaids sex scene with gay life of earlier decades. Firbank is a powerful presence in hollinghursts 1988. Alan hollinghurst is among britains most highlyrated literary novelists, whose bestknown book the line of beauty 2004, winner of that years man booker prize, is a tourdeforce envisioning of the thatcher years as an era of doomed romance. Sep 21, 2011 alan hollinghurst is the author of the novels the strangers child, the swimming pool library, the folding star, the spell, and the line of beauty, which won the man booker prize and was a finalist for the national book critics circle award. Alan hollinghurst is the author of five novels, the swimmingpool library, the folding star, the spell, the line of beauty and the strangers child. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, the swimmingpool library 1988, and was selected as one of the best young british novelists 1993.
Oct 09, 1988 the swimming pool library by alan hollinghurst. Not every age has its pleasures the new york times. The swimmingpool library is a 1988 novel by alan hollinghurst. The swimming pool library isbn 9780099268 pdf epub alan. The marriage between sex and death in western literature seems indissoluble. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst a literary sensation and bestseller both in england and america, the swimmingpool library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of aids. If youve not read hollinghurst, the place to begin is probably with his exquisite first novel, the swimmingpool library 1988, or the line of beauty. The line of beauty, winner of the 2004 man booker prize and a finalist for the national book critics circle award. Alan hollinghurst was born in stroud in gloucestershire, england in 1954 and was educated at magdalen college, oxford.
The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst overdrive. His first, the swimmingpool library, burst onto the scene the gay one and the literary alike in 1988 just as thatchers third government was introducing the section 28 laws. However, i contend that this novel is so good that it transcends any such categorization. Jan 22, 2012 the swimming pool library 1988 depicts a homosexual subsection of london. Section 28 was passed in england inbut was proposed, debated, protested, and hotly.
The swimmingpool library vintage international kindle edition by hollinghurst, alan. Signs of wear include aesthetic issues such as scratches, worn covers, damaged binding. Feb 22, 1988 a literary sensation and bestseller both in england and america, the swimming pool library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of aids. Alan hollinghurst, ronald firbank and the swimmingpool library in. Looking at his back catalogue, from his 1988 debut novel the swimming pool library to the line of beauty. Set in 1983, the novel describes the bohemian lifestyle of the promiscuous will beckwith, a young man of aristocratic descent, who spends his days gorging on culture and young men, frequently picking up boys at the corinthian club. The swimming pool library is set in a similar time and has a majority of homosexual characters, but by all other standards the two shouldnt be compared so. Lord nantwich asks will to write his personal memoir, and slowly more a more of the characters are reveled by the readings of lord n. Oct 23, 2015 today were finally talking about alan hollinghurst s the swimming pool library. In presenting the protagonists libidinous pursuit of black sexual partners in 1980s london as recycling some of the exploitative behaviours of colonial. Apr 17, 2017 firbank is a powerful presence in hollinghursts 1988 novel the swimmingpool library. The presentation of men and male relationships in three contemporary british novels alan hollinghurst s the swimming pool library, nick hornbys high fidelity and irvine welshs trainspotting symon nicklas thesis m.
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