The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal

The City and the Pillar



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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781400030378
Page: 240


When Jim was young he never really dated girls, or had any interest in them. Jim leaves home in search of Bob, his only love. An iconoclast ahead of his time, he candidly wrote about homosexuality in an early novel, The City and the Pillar, which got him blacklisted by book critics at the New York Times. Like any self-respecting American who considers himself even the slightest but literarily inclined, I was already a fan of Vidal's work. "I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ('I am not my own subject,' I used to say with icy superiority)." From the Preface to Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories. Vidal first made a name for himself with the 1948 publication of The City and the Pillar, a book that created turmoil because its main character is openly gay without also being seen as unnatural. He has got to be one of the best writers of the twentieth century. Every single pillar is supposed to feature a neighbourhood map, right on the skinny part that faces the sidewalk. "Too hot to be wrestling."Bob laughed and suddenly grabbed him. The City and The Pillar follows the life of a very confused boy named Jim. During those days, most of what I learned about homosexuality I found in literature, such as Gore Vidal's book, “The City and the Pillar,” which ironically was published about the same time I was born. The City and the Pillar (1948), written when Vidal was just twenty-three years old, is the story of professional tennis player Jim Willard, a man who never outgrew his boyhood crush on his best friend Bob Ford. The City and the Pillar: A Novel by Gore Vidal. Jim and Bob are all American teens who spend their last night of summer together.





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