The City and the Pillar: A Novel - Brossura

Vidal, Gore

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ISBN 10: 1400030374 ISBN 13: 9781400030378

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2003

Riassunto

First published in 1948, Vidal's early novel about homosexual life and the immersion of a regular American man in the gay subculture of New York and California follows Jim Willard, a homosexual, who is haunted by the memory of a childhood friendship and finds himself unable to find happiness in casual affairs. Reprint.

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Recensione:

“An artistic achievement.” —The Washington Post

“One of the best novels of its kind. . . . It isn’t sentimental, and it is frank without trying to be sensational and shocking.” —Christopher Isherwood

“A brilliant exposé of subterranean life.” —The Atlantic Monthly

“Frank, shocking . . . extremely sympathetic, penetrating and exhortive.” —New York Herald Tribune

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1400030374
• ISBN 13: 9781400030378
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240