The City and the Pillar - Paperback
by Gore Vidal
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gore VidalSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2003-12-02Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400030378ISBN-10:1400030374UPC:9781400030378Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, Coming of Age, LiteraryBook Topic:GaySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC0EB4EP52
The City and the Pillar
A literary cause célèbre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in "awful kid stuff," the experience forms Jim's ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents' expectations, Jim...
Series: Vintage International
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400030378ISBN-10:1400030374UPC:9781400030378Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, Coming of Age, LiteraryBook Topic:GaySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC0EB4EP52
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.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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