'Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly funny' Daily Telegraph
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. 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. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. His most recent novel, The Sparsholt Affair, was published in 2017.
The first major novel in Britain to put gay life in its modern
place and context... A historic novel and historic début
*Guardian*
Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly
funny
*Daily Telegraph*
The tautness and energy of Alan Hollinghurst's novel derive from
its ambiguous status a it shimmers somewhere between pastoral
romance and sulphurous confession, between an affectionate and
credible rendering of contemporary mores and lurid
melodrama...classic English prose...surely the best book about gay
life yet written by an English author
*Sunday Times*
Beautifully welds the standard conventions of fiction to a tale of
modern transgressions.It tells of impurities with shimmering
elegance, of complexities with a camp-fired wit and of truths with
a fiction's solid grace
*New York Times Book Review*
The Swimming-Pool 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*
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