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Highly recommend James Baldwin's 1956-published masterpiece, Giovanni's Room. Also, Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming-Pool Library! #AskPenguin https://amzn.to/32PPA0i https://twitter.com/jaowonders/status/1488841623265898500
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Rather taken by the jacket, endpapers and inside cover of this debut novel, which is compared to The Swimming-Pool Library. Do the insides match up? I’m about to find out… https://t.co/0UDC3YqOq6
Editorial Board @dissentmag. Pretty sure I started the trend of labeling the modern US Right as “revanchist.” Charming in person, but we’re not there.
@varsha_venkat_ Alan Hollinghurst’s first novel, The Swimming Pool Library. Only featuring gay men but, all told, one of the most arrestingly beautiful novels I’ve ever read.
"A buoyant, smart, irrepressibly sexy book . . . that has the heft and resonance of a classic modernist novel, the sprawl and surprise of an intimate memoir." --The Village Voice Literary Supplement
"I can think of no other book that is at once so literary and so highly sexed, with the exception of Lolita and Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers." --Edmund White
"The Swimming-Pool Library 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." --The New York Times Book Review