The City and the Pillar. Gore Vidal

The City and the Pillar


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The City and the Pillar Gore Vidal
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group



Jim and Bob are all American teens who spend their last night of summer together. Vidal first made a name for himself with the 1948 publication of The City and the Pillar, a book that created turmoil because its main character is openly gay without also being seen as unnatural. He thought Britain's intelligence service was called 'M Sixteen'). The City and the Pillar: A Novel by Gore Vidal. In 1948, his novel The City and the Pillar, with its overtly homoerotic theme, was pilloried by The New York Times. Like any self-respecting American who considers himself even the slightest but literarily inclined, I was already a fan of Vidal's work. Was a premature gay martyr (on this, you don't know half the story: see Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde on his underground activities), and therefore a “natural” topic for the author of The City and the Pillar. After publishing a Hemingway-style war novel when he was barely twenty, he attracted unusual attention in 1948 with his third novel, The City and the Pillar. The City and The Pillar follows the life of a very confused boy named Jim. Jim leaves home in search of Bob, his only love. The City and the Pillar: A Novel book download. Perhaps the hysterical reaction to The City and the Pillar was what started a long process of alienation from the Establishment into which Vidal had been born. When Jim was young he never really dated girls, or had any interest in them. With more than 200 of the biggest names and greatest minds from the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area present, our first pillar event, DC UpFront, has been deemed a huge success. 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. To make a living, Vidal started writing for television, theater and film.





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