British author alan hollinghurst received the man booker prize for his fourth book, the line of beauty, an elegiac account of cash, cars, cocaine, and coming out in 1980s london. Alan hollinghurst book attacked as pornographic after radio broadcasts a short excerpt from it published. Alan hollinghurst is an english novelist, and winner of the 2004 booker prize for the line of beauty. Aug 31, 2009 discover book depositorys huge selection of alan hollinghurst books online. Swimming pool library leslie, pink, greg, and laura 68 33. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 somerset maugham award, the 1994 james tait black memorial prize and the 2004 booker prize. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Alan hollinghurst author alan hollinghurst was born in 1954. Alan hollinghurst 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. The swimmingpool library hollinghurst alan download bok.
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Sep 30, 2010 the swimmingpool library ebook written by alan hollinghurst. He has received the somerset maugham award, the james tait black memorial prize for fiction and the 2004 man booker prize. 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. Publication date 1988 topics gay men fiction, london england fiction publisher random house. Alan hollinghurst is currently considered a single author. The swimmingpool library vintage international kindle. In alan hollinghurst s debut novel, the swimmingpool library, will, a promiscuous, selfabsorbed layabout, finds his upperclass world both shaken and stirred after he saves the life of an elderly gay aristocrat in a public lavatory. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst 20140805. 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 is a 1988 novel by alan hollinghurst. 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 was on the staff of the times literary supplement from 1982 to 1995.
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