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008 950112s1995 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 95003805
020 $a0679436995 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)32015978
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050 00 $aPS3543.I26$bC5 1995
082 00 $a813/.54$220
100 1 $aVidal, Gore,$d1925-2012.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79040150
240 10 $aCity and the pillar
245 14 $aThe city and the pillar :$brevised, with a new preface by the author ; and, Seven early stories /$cGore Vidal.
246 30 $aSeven early stories
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c©1995.
263 $a9506
300 $axx, 310 p. ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tThe City and the Pillar --$tSeven Early Stories --$tThree Stratagems --$tThe Robin --$tA Moment of Green Laurel --$tThe Zenner Trophy --$tErlinda and Mr. Coffin --$tPages from an Abandoned Journal --$tThe Ladies in the Library.
520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aI 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.
520 8 $aThis 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.
700 12 $aVidal, Gore,$d1925-2012.$tThirsty evil.
740 0 $aThirsty evil.
752 $aUnited States$bNew York (State).$2naf
852 00 $brbx$hPS3543.I26$iC5 1995
852 00 $bglx$hPS3543.I26$iC5 1995