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The City and the Pillar. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York. The City and the Pillar is the third published novel by American writer Gore Vidal, written in 1946 and published on January 10, 1948. The story is about a young man who is coming of age and discovers his own homosexuality.
- Gore Vidal
- 1948
Dec 2, 2003 · The City and the Pillar: A Novel. Paperback – December 2, 2003. 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 ...
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A classic novel of the gay experience by Gore Vidal, published in 1948 and banned in some libraries. Read the plot summary, author biography, reader reviews and ratings, and join the discussion on Goodreads.
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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 ...
- Paperback
The City and the Pillar is written in the same terse Hemingwayesque prose as Vidal's first two novels. This fact may have contributed to the scandal caused by the appearance of the work because ...
Dec 2, 2003 · The City and the Pillar. : Gore Vidal. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 2, 2003 - Fiction - 240 pages. 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.
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A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, 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.
- Gore Vidal
