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- catalog abstract "In 1948, Gore Vidal was a celebrated twenty-two-year-old war novelist about to embark on a career in politics. His future seemed clear. But then he made a choice that changed his life. He published The City and the Pillar, an openly homosexual novel that was taken to be largely autobiographical. "I have read that I was too stupid at the time to know what I was doing," he notes in his introduction to this edition, "but in such matters I have always had a certain alertness. I knew that my description of the love affair between two 'normal' all-American boys, of the sort that I had spent three years in the army with during the war, would challenge every superstition about sex in my native land." His publisher hated the book. The New York Times would not advertise it. The City and the Pillar became a bestseller, nevertheless, and is now a classic. Thomas Mann called it a "noble work." The tragic story of Jim Willard's self-deluded love for another small-town American boy and the portrait of homosexual life in New York and Hollywood in the forties are still moving and truthful, as evocative and topical today as they were nearly fifty years ago. This edition incorporates Vidal's 1965 revisions and some further emendations by the author. Vidal's only collection of short stories, published as A Thirsty Evil in 1956, is also included here, bringing together for the first time his early homoerotic work. These subtle and comic tales, set in Key West, Washington, D.C., Paris, and New York, are at once sophisticated and charming, written with the narrative power for which Gore Vidal is famous.".
- catalog alternative "7 early stories".
- catalog alternative "City and the pillar".
- catalog alternative "Seven early stories".
- catalog alternative "Thirsty evil".
- catalog contributor b7828250.
- catalog contributor b7828251.
- catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Consists of the novel The city and the pillar ; and seven short stories originally published under title: Thirsty evil.".
- catalog description "In 1948, Gore Vidal was a celebrated twenty-two-year-old war novelist about to embark on a career in politics. His future seemed clear. But then he made a choice that changed his life. He published The City and the Pillar, an openly homosexual novel that was taken to be largely autobiographical. "I have read that I was too stupid at the time to know what I was doing," he notes in his introduction to this edition, "but in such matters I have always had a certain alertness. I knew that my description of the love affair between two 'normal' all-American boys, of the sort that I had spent three years in the army with during the war, would challenge every superstition about sex in my native land." His publisher hated the book. The New York Times would not advertise it. The City and the Pillar became a bestseller, nevertheless, and is now a classic. Thomas Mann called it a "noble work." The tragic story of Jim Willard's self-deluded love for another small-town American boy and the portrait of homosexual life in New York and Hollywood in the forties are still moving and truthful, as evocative and topical today as they were nearly fifty years ago. This edition incorporates Vidal's 1965 revisions and some further emendations by the author. Vidal's only collection of short stories, published as A Thirsty Evil in 1956, is also included here, bringing together for the first time his early homoerotic work. These subtle and comic tales, set in Key West, Washington, D.C., Paris, and New York, are at once sophisticated and charming, written with the narrative power for which Gore Vidal is famous.".
- catalog extent "xx, 310 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "City and the pillar and seven early stories.".
- catalog identifier "0679436995 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "City and the pillar and seven early stories.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
- catalog relation "City and the pillar and seven early stories.".
- catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Gay men Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Gays Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Male homosexuality Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3543.I26 C5 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Consists of the novel The city and the pillar ; and seven short stories originally published under title: Thirsty evil.".
- catalog title "7 early stories".
- catalog title "City and the pillar".
- catalog title "Seven early stories".
- catalog title "The city and the pillar and seven early stories / Gore Vidal.".
- catalog title "Thirsty evil".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".