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The swimming pool library won the somerset maugham award in 1988. Hollinghurst was born in stroud, gloucestershire, the only child of james. Publication date 1988 publisher penguin collection. In 2011, his novel the strangers child was longlisted for the booker prize. Alan james hollinghurst frsl born 26 may 1954 is an english novelist, poet, short story writer and translator.
Not every age has its pleasures the new york times. The swimmingpool library vintage international kindle. The swimming pool library isbn 9780099268 pdf epub alan. 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.
Civil servant alex takes ecstasy for the first time at a club. 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. A short version of this article appears as a chapter in alan hollinghurst. Delaware county district library ohio scanned in china. Alan hollinghurst author alan hollinghurst was born in 1954. 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. Oct 26, 2016 david forest with hugo bolton, directed by scott lyman. Forster award of the american academy of arts and letters, and the james tait black memorial prize. Building on the work of roland barthes and kristin thompson on the obtuse and excess, i argue that cinema does. 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. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst penguin. Forster award of the american academy of arts and letters, and the. Narrator will beckwith is a beautiful 25yearold, supported by his doting grandfather viscount beckwith and dividing his time between his. Pdf cinema in the library on alan hollinghursts the swimming.
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The swimmingpool library vintage international kindle edition by hollinghurst, alan. The liminoid in alan hollinghursts the swimmingpool. Publication date 1988 topics gay men fiction, london england fiction publisher random house. 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.
The swimming pool library alan hollinghurst this work centres on the friendship of william beckwith, a young, gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly lord nantwich who is searching for someone to write his. Section 28 was passed in england inbut was proposed, debated, protested, and hotly contested all through the mid. The swimming pool library weaves a rich and fascinating tapestry of britains gay subculture spanning preworld war i through the sexually abandoned. In 1974, hollinghurst was awarded the newdigate prize. Alan hollinghurst is currently considered a single author. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. His second novel, the folding star, won the james tait black memorial prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 booker prize. Section 28 was passed in england inbut was proposed, debated, protested, and hotly contested all. Jun 11, 2011 according to yet another poet and tls deputy editor, alan jenkins, it wasnt the most joyful period of hollinghurst s life. Alan hollinghurst primary author only author division. His novel the line of beauty won the booker prize in 2004. The presentation of men and male relationships in three contemporary british novels alan hollinghursts the swimmingpool library, nick hornbys high fidelity and irvine welshs trainspotting symon nicklas thesis m.
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Alan hollinghurst is the author of several novels including the swimmingpool library, the folding star, the spell, the line of beauty and the strangers child. The line of beauty, the strangers child, and this book all feature protagonists who should be working on a book, and arent. As a straight man i endeavored to give all the gay sexuality the same distance i gave the sexuality of straight characters whose taste differs from minecf. I will go on loving alan hollinghurst, but i will never read the swimmingpool library on the bus. 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. Daphne sawle, a key figure in the book, whom we follow from a poetically. In 1994, he won the james tait black memorial prize for the folding star. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. The swimmingpool library ebook by alan hollinghurst. Race, empire and the swimming pool library john mcleod 5.
Before the swimming pool library, jenkins recalled in 2004, it didnt. The appeal of the swimmingpool library resides not only in the powerful. 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. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more. An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of aids. 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. The swimming pool library by alan hollinghurst, first.
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Alan hollinghurst audio books, best sellers, author bio. Discover more authors youll love listening to on audible. Alan hollinghurst was born in stroud in gloucestershire, england in 1954 and was educated at magdalen college, oxford. Alan hollinghurst knows that the drugged seem boring or idiotic to the undrugged, and in the first drug experience narrated in the spell makes the banality of what is thought part of the narration. A wonderful romp around londontown, arguably the gayest city in all of europe. However, i contend that this novel is so good that it transcends any such categorization.
The swimmingpool library is a perfect debut, in that it arrives. Nick is stunned, but as reader we have to be in tacit agreement, having seen the beautty part nick has often played in all his relationships. Apr 17, 2017 firbank is a powerful presence in hollinghursts 1988 novel the swimmingpool library. In 1983 london, will, a privileged, gay, sexually irresistible 25yearold, saves the life of an elderly aristocrat who has a heartattack in a public lavatory. He was on the staff of the times literary supplement from 1982 to 1995. The swimmingpool library alan hollinghurst, samuel west on free shipping on qualifying offers. The swimmingpool library is a 1988 novel by alan hollinghurst plot introduction. 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. Sep 21, 2011 the swimmingpool library ebook written by alan hollinghurst. Hollinghursts style draws comparisons with joyce and nabokov, in particular for his booker prizenominated novel, the folding star. He has received the somerset maugham award, the james tait black memorial prize for fiction and the 2004 man booker prize. Browse alan hollinghursts bestselling audiobooks and newest titles. Following the screening will be an informal discussion and then the bar is open.
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