The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal

The City and the Pillar



The City and the Pillar pdf

The City and the Pillar Gore Vidal ebook
ISBN: 9781400030378
Page: 240
Format: pdf
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group


He'd dedicated his novel The City and the Pillar to "JT" when it was published in 1948. Vidal wasn't invited to the field rededication. The author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and gay icon was 86 years old, whose most well-known novels were Myra Breckinridge, Two Sisters and Lincoln. The City and the Pillar: A Novel book download. But he never forgot Trimble, either. The City and the Pillar (1948), written when Vidal was just twenty-three years old, is the story of professional tennis player Jim Willard, a man who never outgrew his boyhood crush on his best friend Bob Ford. Download The City and the Pillar: A Novel Our book group read this as a sort of homage to the author, who died earlier this year. REVIEW: As one of the first novels about homosexuality, the story is contemporary and interestingly relevant to the exploration of one's sexuality. He has got to be one of the best writers of the twentieth century. "I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ('I am not my own subject,' I used to say with icy superiority)." From the Preface to Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories. On Alexius's recommendation, we read the book, a source of escape for Alexius.





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