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



"Even so," he said quickly, "there are other things in life than being in love. 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. 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. The New York Times refused to review his next five books. The author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and gay icon was 86 years old, whose most well-known novels were Myra Breckinridge, Two Sisters and Lincoln. Bernard Levin described Vidal's third novel, The City and The Pillar, published in 1948 when he was 23 and written two years before as the “first serious American homosexual novel”. On Alexius's recommendation, we read the book, a source of escape for Alexius. The City and the Pillar, Gore Vidal. I have challenged myself to read 52 books in 52 weeks and review each of them. With what I want." Jim thought of Bob. The City and the Pillar: A Novel book download. The City and the Pillar was the first gay novel that I read, unaware that it had practically killed his career in the 1950s, forcing him to work under pseudonyms. He's never in love, are you?" "Of course I am. An iconoclast ahead of his time, he candidly wrote about homosexuality in an early novel, The City and the Pillar, which got him blacklisted by book critics at the New York Times. Usually updated every Sunday, but more often at the moment to make up for a short hiatus (of writing not reading). 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. The City knew it was time to upgrade an old, dilapidated, unsafe above ground park but funds were limited and resources were tight.





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