Sexuality

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

After reading half-a-dozen or so novels I feel that I am beginning to be able to see differences between them and to see what makes them unique. For example one book that I have read (The Swimming Pool Library) sort of presented the gay man's fantasy... but with...

The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

This book was about the homosexual experience at a certain time and place in history (England in the mid-twentieth century). This book is brimming with gay lust and I found reading it triggering at first. The main character was a mid-twenties gay aristocrat in England...