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The City And The Pillar

by Gore Vidal
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Groundbreaking exploration of hidden love in America.

The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal is a groundbreaking novel that explores the hidden world of gay love and relationships in America during the 1940s. The book provides a unique and authentic glimpse into a time when homosexuality was considered taboo and a social outcast. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the complexities and nuances of love, sexuality, and identity. With its raw and unflinching portrayal of gay life, The City and the Pillar remains a powerful and relevant social document today.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The City And The Pillar

by Gore Vidal
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ISBN: 9780349106571
Authors: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Abacus Books
Date of Publication: 1997-05-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Queer, LGBT, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.84
(rated by 9291 readers)

Description

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.
 

Groundbreaking exploration of hidden love in America.

The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal is a groundbreaking novel that explores the hidden world of gay love and relationships in America during the 1940s. The book provides a unique and authentic glimpse into a time when homosexuality was considered taboo and a social outcast. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the complexities and nuances of love, sexuality, and identity. With its raw and unflinching portrayal of gay life, The City and the Pillar remains a powerful and relevant social document today.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.