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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: city and the pillar
    sub title: and seven early stories
  title info:
    title: City and the pillar
  name:
    name part: Vidal, Gore
    name part: 1925-2012
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Short stories.
  genre: short stories.
  genre: Short stories
  genre: Fiction
  genre: Gay fiction.
  genre: LGBTQ+ fiction.
  genre: Novels.
  genre: Nouvelles.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1995
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 310 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: 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.
  note: revised, with a new preface by the author, Gore Vidal.
  note: Consists of the novel The city and the pillar, plus seven short stories originally published under title: Thirsty evil.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuels
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
  subject:
    topic: LGBTQ+ people
  subject:
    topic: Men
  subject:
    topic: Sexual minorities
  classification: PS3543.I26 C5 1995
  classification: 813/.54
  classification: 18.06
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Thirsty evil
    name:
      name part: Vidal, Gore,
      name part: 1925-2012
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Thirsty evil
  related item:
    title info:
      title: City and the pillar and seven early stories
    title info:
      title: City and the pillar
    name:
      name part: Vidal, Gore, 1925-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Random House, ©1995
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)624401530
  identifier: 0679436995
  identifier: 9780679436997
  identifier: 95003805
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 950112
    record change date: 20240626173457.4
    record identifier: in00001230899
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng