The City and the Pillar
A Novel
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. Defying his parents' expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels is his unique bond with Bob and with his persistent attraction to other men. Upon finally encountering Bob years l…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4000-3037-8
- EAN: 9781400030378
- Produktnummer: 19366736
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.6 cm 224 g
- Gewicht: 224
Über den Autor
Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.
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