The City and the Pillar. Gore Vidal

The City and the Pillar


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The City and the Pillar Gore Vidal
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group



The City and the Pillar: A Novel book download. The author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and gay icon was 86 years old, whose most well-known novels were Myra Breckinridge, Two Sisters and Lincoln. That 1948 novel, The City and the Pillar, was dedicated to Jimmie Trimble. Download The City and the Pillar: A Novel Our book group read this as a sort of homage to the author, who died earlier this year. Like any self-respecting American who considers himself even the slightest but literarily inclined, I was already a fan of Vidal's work. More than once, I was in the august presence of Hunter Thompson. Writing with a pen required extreme. The New York Times refused to review his next five books. During these meetings, which occurred over the last 20 years of his life, his motor control was not the best. The City and the Pillar was the first gay novel that I read, unaware that it had practically killed his career in the 1950s, forcing him to work under pseudonyms. His literary talents were prodigious, though he scandalized the elites early in his career by writing a novel openly celebrating homosexuality. Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at College of the Desert In 1947, Gore Vidal sent a copy of his soon-to-be-published novel, The City and the Pillar, to a number of established writers. Christopher Isherwood was one of them.





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