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convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love

With propulsive narrative scenes

the women profiled in this inspiring anthology broke the rules to reach their goals and refused to take "no" for an answer

and dive revealing itself to be a palimpsest of queer history

The Swimming-Pool Library BIPAN convinced that their scent canBy Alan Hollinghurst The dazzling first novel from the best selling, Booker Prize Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair. An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. The Swimming Pool Library focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of