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The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal

The City and the Pillar Gore Vidal ebook
Page: 240
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781400030378

Smile Politely is Champaign-Urbana's independent online magazine. He'd dedicated his novel The City and the Pillar to "JT" when it was published in 1948. An iconoclast ahead of his time, he candidly wrote about homosexuality in an early novel, The City and the Pillar, which got him blacklisted by book critics at the New York Times. We provide the community with a passionate, trustworthy, informed point of view on local music, arts, culture, food & drink, sports, politics and news. 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. Just finished Gore Vidal's “The City and the Pillar,” a novel to which I should have treated myself years ago. In any case, I never felt Vidal's sexuality was the point: he told us as much about his romantic life in his first novel, “Williwaw,” and in “The City and the Pillar,” as I find necessary. Vidal wasn't invited to the field rededication. He wrote his first novel at 19 while serving in the Army during World War II. "Too hot to be wrestling."Bob laughed and suddenly grabbed him. That the Times even deigned to interview Vidal was noteworthy. €�The City and the Pillar”, Vintage Books Reprint, 1995. The City knew it was time to upgrade an old, dilapidated, unsafe above ground park but funds were limited and resources were tight. 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. Every year, in May or June, Chiang Mai's Inthakhin Pillar on Wat Chedi Luang is at the centre of ceremonies that go back to the city's foundation in 1296. The City and the Pillar (1948), written when Vidal was just twenty-three years old, is the story of professional tennis player Jim Willard, a man who never outgrew his boyhood crush on his best friend Bob Ford. But I probably wasn't ready to read it then. Vidal's hugely controversial, ground-breaking 1948 novel The City and the Pillar, which had a whole bunch of gay stuff in it that was most certainly not casually accepted at the time, was black-listed by The New York Times. But he never forgot Trimble, either. During those days, most of what I learned about homosexuality I found in literature, such as Gore Vidal's book, “The City and the Pillar,” which ironically was published about the same time I was born. (Originally published in 1948).