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The city and the pillar and seven early stories revised, with a new preface by the author

Controversial in its time, this novel tells of a young gay man's search for love in the closeted years of the 1940s.

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  • "City & the pillar"
  • "Ciudad y el pilar de sal y 7 relatos de juventud"
  • "Ciudad y el pilar de sal ; 7 relatos de juventud"
  • "Sex and the law"@en
  • "(The city and the pillar)"@it
  • "city and the pillar"
  • "city and the pillar"@it
  • "City and the pillar"@it

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  • "Controversial in its time, this novel tells of a young gay man's search for love in the closeted years of the 1940s."@en
  • "De stad en de pijler. - In het New York van de jaren veertig bloeit een liefde op tussen twee gewone jongens van wie er een uiteindelijk toch kiest voor het huwelijk."
  • "In 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. I 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. This 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."
  • "In 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. I 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. This 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."@en
  • "Jim Willard et Bob Ford sont deux adolescents qui, au cours de quelques journées passées près d'une rivière, découvrent l'amour physique. Après leur séparation, Jim Willard cherchera à retrouver Bob et à revivre ce moment de grâce au cours d'un périple américain. Mais lors de l'ultime rencontre, c'est la violence qui primera. Un des premiers romans américains à traiter d'homosexualité."
  • ""Celebrates Gore Vidal's landmark gay novel about the love between teo athletic and handsome young men"--Page 2 of cover."@en
  • "Homosexual Jim searches for his childhoodfriend Bob with whom he had an amorous experience with in high school."@en
  • "In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy. Jim will spend later years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the opportunity occurs, it explodes with violence and pain."@en
  • "The ground-breaking "The City and the Pillar" (1948) that outraged mainstream critics as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality."

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  • "Autobiographical fiction"
  • "Verhalen (teksten)"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Nowele amerykańskie"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Gay and lesbian fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "homoseksualitet"@da

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  • "La statua di sale = (The city and the pillar)"@it
  • "al-Madīna wa al-ʻamūd"
  • "Un garçon près de la rivière : roman"
  • "La ciudad y el pilar de sal : y Siete relatos de juventud"
  • "Byen og søjlen"@da
  • "The city and the pillar : including an essay, sex and the law, and a afterword"
  • "To agori plai sto potami"
  • "The city & the pillar"
  • "The city and the pillar and seven early stories revised, with a new preface by the author"@en
  • "The City and the pillar : complete and revised"
  • "The city and the pillar : and seven early stories ; revised, with a new preface"@en
  • "Un garçon près de la riviere"
  • "The City and the pillar"
  • "The city and the pillar"@en
  • "The city and the pillar"
  • "The City and the pillar"@en
  • "The City and the Pillar (...)"
  • "The city and the pillar and seven early stories : revised, with a new preface by the author"
  • "The City and the Pillar. (Revised edition.)"@en
  • "The city and the pillar : Includ. an essay, sex and the law, and an afterword"
  • "La ciudad y el pilar de sal : y siete relatos de juventud"@es
  • "La statua di sale = The city and the pillar"@it
  • "al-Madīnah wa-al-ʻamūd"
  • "The city and the pillar, revised : including an essay, Sex and the law, and an afterword"
  • "The city and the pillar revised : incl. an essay, "Sex and the law", and "An afterword.""
  • "The city and the pillar : complete and revised"
  • "The City and the Pillar : complete and revised"
  • "The city and the pillar revised : including an essay, sex and the law, and An afterword"
  • "The city and the pillar : novel"
  • "The city and the pillar revised : including an essay "Sex and the law", and an afterword"
  • "Orasul si stîlpul"
  • "The city and the pillar : and seven early stories"@en
  • "The city & The pillar"
  • "The city and the pillar : and seven early stories"
  • "The city and the pillar : Completed and revised. With a preface by the author"
  • "Geschlossener Kreis : Roman"
  • "La ciudad y el pilar de sal"@es
  • "Geschlossener Kreis Roman"
  • "The city and the pillar revised ; including an essay, Sex and the law, and an afterword"
  • "The city and the pillar revised; including an essay: Sex and the law, and An afterword"
  • "The city and the pillar, and seven early stories"
  • "The city and the pillar, and seven early stories"@en
  • "The city and the pillar revised including an essay: Sex and the law, and An afterword"@en
  • "La Ciudad y el pilar de sal y siete relatos de juventud"
  • "The city and the pillar : a novel"@en
  • "The city and the pillar : a novel"
  • "The city and the pillar and seven early stories"
  • "La ciudad y el pilar de sal y siete relatos de juventud"@es
  • "La ciudad y el pilar de sal y siete relatos de juventud"
  • "The city and the pillar revised : including an essay, Sex and the law, and an afterword"@en
  • "The city and the pillar : including an essay sex and the law and an afterword"
  • "La statua di sale : (The city and the pillar)"
  • "The City and the pillar, revised : Including an essay, Sex and the Law, and an afterword"
  • "The city and the pillar a novel"@en
  • "The city and the pillar, revised"@en
  • "La ciudad y el pilar de sal ; y Siete relatos de juventud"@es
  • "The city and the pillar : revised : including an essay, Sex and the law, and an afterword"@en
  • "La statua di sale"@it
  • "The City and the Pillar. [A novel.]"@en
  • "The city and the pillar : including an essay, Sex and the law, and an afterword"
  • "Un garcon pres de la riviere"
  • "The city and the pillar , revised : including an essay, "Sex and the law", and an afterword"
  • "The city and the pillar including an essay, Sex and the law, and an afterword"@en
  • "The City and the Pillar"

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