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The City and the Pillar: A Novel

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 | #69817 in Books |  Gore Vidal |  2003-12-02 |  2003-12-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.98 x.72 x5.17l, | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Both historically, and at face value,|By Julie Vognar|I found this to be a fine book. The prose is spare, lean, direct--much like Jim, its protagonist. It does not have the eloquence or depth of Vidal's later work, but it doesn't TRY to--it stays within itself. The official .com reviwer has said not to read it for the sex, and this is of course true. The only sex scene actually| |“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

A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.

Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim ...

You easily download any file type for your device.The City and the Pillar: A Novel   |  Gore Vidal. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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