A literary gay novel from england that contrasts the uninhibited preaids sex scene with gay life of earlier decades. The swimmingpool library vintage international kindle. The swimming pool library vintage international kindle edition by hollinghurst, alan. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading. The second, later novel is the swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst. 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 swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst, paperback. 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. Building on the work of roland barthes and kristin thompson on the obtuse and excess, i argue that cinema does. Today were finally talking about alan hollinghursts the swimming pool library. This article analyses the presence of the cinema in alan hollinghurst s first novel the swimmingpool library 1988. Buy the swimmingpool library vintage classics by alan hollinghurst isbn.
The swimmingpool 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. Mar 18, 2020 the swimming pool library by alan hollinghurst. He has received the somerset maugham award, the james tait black memorial prize for fiction and the 2004 man booker prize. Published in 1988, alan hollinghursts debut the swimmingpool. Hollinghursts the swimmingpool library marcin sroczynski university of warsaw abstract. The swimming pool library isbn 9780099268 pdf epub. Oct 09, 1988 the swimming pool library by alan hollinghurst.
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. Alan hollinghurst is the author of the novels the swimmingpool library. Will beckwith, the randy gay protagonist of alan hollinghursts the swim ming pool library, sometimes takes pause from his hectic sex life to muse on the legal. 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 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. His second novel, the folding star, won the james tait black memorial prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 booker prize. Pdf cinema in the library on alan hollinghursts the swimming. 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. According to yet another poet and tls deputy editor, alan jenkins, it wasnt the most joyful period of hollinghursts life. Signs of wear include aesthetic issues such as scratches, worn covers, damaged binding. 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. Narrator will beckwith is a beautiful 25yearold, supported by his doting grandfather viscount beckwith and dividing his time between his. 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 was born in stroud in gloucestershire, england in 1954 and was educated at magdalen college, oxford. In 1994, he won the james tait black memorial prize for the folding star. 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. Editions of the swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst the 635th. 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. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst overdrive. Alan hollinghurst is not a prolific novelist, with only five novels to his name, but he is an important one. The marriage between sex and death in western literature seems indissoluble. The swimming pool library, his sexdrenched first book. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst waterstones.
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The swimmingpool library the summer of 1983, narrator will beckwith notes at the opening of the swimmingpool library, was to be. 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. In presenting the protagonists libidinous pursuit of black sexual partners in 1980s london as recycling some of the exploitative behaviours of colonial. Includes bibliographic data, information about the author of the ebook, description of the ebook and other if such information is available. As some of you may have noticed, i dont do a lot of video. The swimmingpool library vintage international kindle edition by hollinghurst, alan.
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. 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. Jan 22, 2012 the swimming pool library 1988 depicts a homosexual subsection of london. The swimming pool library 1988 depicts a homosexual subsection of london. Alan hollinghurst is the author of the novels the swimming pool library. 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. The item may have identifying markings on it or show other signs of previous use. Looking at his back catalogue, from his 1988 debut novel the swimming pool library to the line of beauty. Before the swimmingpool library, jenkins recalled in 2004, it didnt. Firbank is a powerful presence in hollinghursts 1988. 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. 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. May have page creases, creased spine, bent cover or markings inside.
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