The City and the Pillar
by Vidal, Gore
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: John Lehmann, 1949. First UK edition. Hardcover. very good -. Octavo. 270pp. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Spine a bit faded and dulled.
Vidal's third novel which shocked the public with its direct and unadorned examination of a homosexual main character,
Vidal (1925-2012) in this novel used what he called a "flat, gray, naturalistic style." The novel became a sensation but received generally negative reviews. In 1974 he explained to The Paris Review that, "Tactically, if not aesthetically, this was for a good reason. Up until then homosexuality in literature was always exotic.... I wanted to deal with an absolutely ordinary, all-American, lower-middle-class young man and his world. To show the dead-on "normality" of the homosexual experience."
Vidal's third novel which shocked the public with its direct and unadorned examination of a homosexual main character,
Vidal (1925-2012) in this novel used what he called a "flat, gray, naturalistic style." The novel became a sensation but received generally negative reviews. In 1974 he explained to The Paris Review that, "Tactically, if not aesthetically, this was for a good reason. Up until then homosexuality in literature was always exotic.... I wanted to deal with an absolutely ordinary, all-American, lower-middle-class young man and his world. To show the dead-on "normality" of the homosexual experience."
Synopsis
Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw , written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50381
- Title
- The City and the Pillar
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK edition
- Publisher
- John Lehmann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Homosexuality fiction
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