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The City and the Pillar Gore Vidal
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

He chose to serve Jimmy Trimble, a teenager with whom he fell in love in boarding school and who provided inspiration for The City and the Pillar, and in doing so betrayed the bigotry of American society. That 1948 novel, The City and the Pillar, was dedicated to Jimmie Trimble. "Too hot to be wrestling."Bob laughed and suddenly grabbed him. After publishing a Hemingway-style war novel when he was barely twenty, he attracted unusual attention in 1948 with his third novel, The City and the Pillar. Was a premature gay martyr (on this, you don't know half the story: see Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde on his underground activities), and therefore a “natural” topic for the author of The City and the Pillar. Gore Vidal is an author, playwright, screenwriter and political activist with an estimated net worth with $12. He thought Britain's intelligence service was called 'M Sixteen'). His literary talents were prodigious, though he scandalized the elites early in his career by writing a novel openly celebrating homosexuality. THE CITY AND THE PILLAR, GORE VIDAL ASTERIOS POLYP, DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2009…I look forward to the new collection every year! REVIEW: As one of the first novels about homosexuality, the story is contemporary and interestingly relevant to the exploration of one's sexuality. He wrote his first novel at 19 while serving in the Army during World War II. Download The City and the Pillar: A Novel Our book group read this as a sort of homage to the author, who died earlier this year. Upon finally encountering Bob years later, the force of his hopes for a life together leads to a devastating climax. The City and the Pillar: A Novel book download.