The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal

The City and the Pillar



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ISBN: 9781400030378
Format: pdf
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Page: 240


But I probably wasn't ready to read it then. We provide the community with a passionate, trustworthy, informed point of view on local music, arts, culture, food & drink, sports, politics and news. An iconoclast ahead of his time, he candidly wrote about homosexuality in an early novel, The City and the Pillar, which got him blacklisted by book critics at the New York Times. On Alexius's recommendation, we read the book, a source of escape for Alexius. Perhaps the hysterical reaction to The City and the Pillar was what started a long process of alienation from the Establishment into which Vidal had been born. 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. Just finished Gore Vidal's “The City and the Pillar,” a novel to which I should have treated myself years ago. €� Genesis 19:26 ---------- Jim liked Shaw, though he never believed him when, together at night, he would tell Jim how much he loved him. Upon first publication in 1948, The City and the Pillar received a wave of critical attention – positive and negative – and assured Gore Vidal a lifetime place in American letters. But his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt. I'm not sure why it kept getting passed over, I always knew that I would enjoy it. Turns out, everyone has read Crazy Salad and The City and the Pillar, and adores “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”. That 1948 novel, The City and the Pillar, was dedicated to Jimmie Trimble. That the Times even deigned to interview Vidal was noteworthy. Smile Politely is Champaign-Urbana's independent online magazine. Bernard Levin described Vidal's third novel, The City and The Pillar, published in 1948 when he was 23 and written two years before as the “first serious American homosexual novel”. His literary talents were prodigious, though he scandalized the elites early in his career by writing a novel openly celebrating homosexuality. The conference and the banquet rooms at The Palace, Bangalore are par excellence and feature the finest in audio visual equipment and facilities. Like any self-respecting American who considers himself even the slightest but literarily inclined, I was already a fan of Vidal's work. It also imparts which of the celebrity's books, characters or songs is the most beloved among one's circle.





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