Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door-, is haunted by the memory of a romanctic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses himself, his progresss through the secret gay world of 1940's America unveils surreptitious Hollywood affairs, the hidden life of the military in the Second World War and the underworld bar culture of New York City. With the publication of his daring thrid novel The City and the Pillar in ...
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Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door-, is haunted by the memory of a romanctic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses himself, his progresss through the secret gay world of 1940's America unveils surreptitious Hollywood affairs, the hidden life of the military in the Second World War and the underworld bar culture of New York City. With the publication of his daring thrid novel The City and the Pillar in 1948, Gore Vidal shocked the American public, which has just begun to hail him as their newest and brightest young writer. It remains not only an authentic and profoundly importatnt social document but also a serious exploration of the nature of idealistic love.
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This is the book that made Gore Vidal a power to be reckoned with. The first gay themed book to make the NY Times best-seller list.
Be sure that it is thei original edtion; a later revised edition lacks the melodrama which made it a best-seller,
ThVa
Oct 9, 2008
Vintage Vidal
The City and the Pillar is Gore Vidal's first overtly gay novel, published in 1948. He was blacklisted as a novelist for many years as a result, which is why he spent a lot of time writing for television and film. But there was no ignoring his talent, and his later publishing record speaks for itself. Subsequent paperback editions of The City revised the ending, leaving it more ambiguous than the original, but the 1948 edition is a landmark in American literature.