Description
| Product ID: | 9780349106571 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The City And The Pillar |
| Authors: | Author: Gore Vidal |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy and Jim spends years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the opportunity occurs, it explodes with violence and pain. This was one of the first pieces of explicitly gay fiction. Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door-, is haunted by the memory of a romanctic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses himself, his progresss through the secret gay world of 1940''s America unveils surreptitious Hollywood affairs, the hidden life of the military in the Second World War and the underworld bar culture of New York City. |
| Imprint Name: | Abacus |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1997-05-01 |
