Description

A literary sensation and best-seller both in England and America, The swimming pool Library is definitely an enthralling, darkly sensual story of homosexuality prior to the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, held of relaxing quality, for means of living that may no further be lived with impunity. "Impeccably constructed and thoroughly specific in its declaration of anything" (Harpers & Queen), it centers around the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and seniors Lord Nantwich, a classic Africa hand, trying to find anyone to write his biography and acquire his customs.