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

I'm not sure why it kept getting passed over, I always knew that I would enjoy it. Http://www.amazon.com/The-City-Pillar-A-Novel/dp/1400030374 Also, everyone who comes, please have one talking point you'd like us to discuss. Christopher Isherwood was one of them. €� Genesis 19:26 ---------- Jim liked Shaw, though he never believed him when, together at night, he would tell Jim how much he loved him. During those days, most of what I learned about homosexuality I found in literature, such as Gore Vidal's book, “The City and the Pillar,” which ironically was published about the same time I was born. The City and the Pillar (1948), written when Vidal was just twenty-three years old, is the story of professional tennis player Jim Willard, a man who never outgrew his boyhood crush on his best friend Bob Ford. He thought Britain's intelligence service was called 'M Sixteen'). The New York Times refused to review his next five books. Upon finally encountering Bob years later, the force of his hopes for a life together leads to a devastating climax. We're inviting the city of Seattle. Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt was one of the inspirations for Lolita, and compared to Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar (written around the same time) was much more daring. But his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt. Sometimes recalls aloud — just as I repeat back to him — the epigraph of Gore Vidal's great novel about youth and loss, The City and the Pillar. 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. The golden pillar, standing in the center of the temple, is joined by a second pillar made by Rama I'VE. Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at College of the Desert In 1947, Gore Vidal sent a copy of his soon-to-be-published novel, The City and the Pillar, to a number of established writers. Whatever you want or are interested in. Vidal brought the subject of homosexuality to the forefront even when America wasn't ready to deal with it: When E.P. Photo-1 This book has been on my to read list for a long time, I've been meaning to read it for far too long.