Gore Vidal: The City And The Pillar, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The City And The Pillar
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- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group, 10/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780349147123
- Item number:
- 12157112
- Volume:
- 208 Pages
- Weight:
- 172 g
- Format:
- 198 x 126 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 2.10.2025
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Blurb
Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door, is haunted by the memory of a romantic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses himself, his progress 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 third novelThe 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 important social document but also a serious exploration of the nature of idealistic love.
Biography
Gore Vidal, geboren 1925, zählt zu den wichtigsten Vertretern der amerikanischen Literatur. Er ist Autor von 22 Romanen, fünf Theaterstücken, vielen Filmdrehbüchern, Kurzgeschichten und über 200 Essays. Für "United States: Essays 1952 - 1992", eine Sammlung seiner Kritiken, erhielt er den National Book Award. Seine Memoiren "Palimpsest" (1996) sind ein bedeutendes Zeitdokument. Der Autor lebte in Ravello und Los Angeles.§Gore Vidal ist am 31. Juli 2012 im Alter von 86 Jahren in Los Angeles gestorben.
