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, an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. & Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything& (Harpers &&& Queen), it focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privil