The City And The Pillar
$24.09
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2026
Summary
The City and the Pillar: A Landmark Novel of Love and Identity
A literary cause celebre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience
Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door, is haunted by the memory of a romantic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses hi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349147123 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349147124 |
| Author: | Gore Vidal, Jay Parini |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 171g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Certainly one of the best novels of its kind … It isn’t sentimental and it is frank without trying to be sensational and shocking. These are enormous virtues * Christopher Isherwood *A noble work … An important human document, of excellent and enlightening truthfulness * Thomas Mann *Frank, shocking … extremely sympathetic, penetrating and exhortive * New York Herald Tribune *An artistic achievement * Washington Post *The first serious American homosexual novel – Bernard Levin * The Times *A brilliant expose of subterranean life * Atlantic Monthly *
About The Author
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote ‘The Narratives of a Golden Age’ series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.
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