The city and the pillar and seven early stories : revised, with a new preface by the author
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Published
New York : Random House, [1995].
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Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0679436995, 9780679436997
Physical Desc
xx, 310 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Greenville - Adult Fiction
VIDAL
1 available
VIDAL
1 available
Providence Public - Level G Fiction
Fic Vidal
1 available
Fic Vidal
1 available
Westerly - Fiction (Main Floor-Fiction Room)
Vidal
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Vidal
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Published
New York : Random House, [1995].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0679436995, 9780679436997
Notes
General Note
Consists of the novel The city and the pillar and seven short stories originally published under title: Thirsty evil.
Description
In 1948, Gore Vidal was a celebrated twenty-two-year-old war novelist about to embark on a career in politics. His future seemed clear. But then he made a choice that changed his life. He published The City and the Pillar, an openly homosexual novel that was taken to be largely autobiographical. "I have read that I was too stupid at the time to know what I was doing," he notes in his introduction to this edition, "but in such matters I have always had a certain alertness. I knew that my description of the love affair between two 'normal' all-American boys, of the sort that I had spent three years in the army with during the war, would challenge every superstition about sex in my native land." His publisher hated the book. The New York Times would not advertise it. The City and the Pillar became a bestseller, nevertheless, and is now a classic. Thomas Mann called it a "noble work." The tragic story of Jim Willard's self-deluded love for another small-town American boy and the portrait of homosexual life in New York and Hollywood in the forties are still moving and truthful, as evocative and topical today as they were nearly fifty years ago. This edition incorporates Vidal's 1965 revisions and some further emendations by the author. Vidal's only collection of short stories, published as A Thirsty Evil in 1956, is also included here, bringing together for the first time his early homoerotic work. These subtle and comic tales, set in Key West, Washington, D.C., Paris, and New York, are at once sophisticated and charming, written with the narrative power for which Gore Vidal is famous.
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Greenville - Adult Fiction | VIDAL | On Shelf |
Providence Public - Level G Fiction | Fic Vidal | On Shelf |
Westerly - Fiction (Main Floor-Fiction Room) | Vidal | On Shelf |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vidal, G. (1995). The city and the pillar and seven early stories: revised, with a new preface by the author (First edition.). Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012. 1995. The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories: Revised, With a New Preface By the Author. Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012. The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories: Revised, With a New Preface By the Author Random House, 1995.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vidal, Gore. The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories: Revised, With a New Preface By the Author First edition., Random House, 1995.
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