The City And The Pillar
by Vidal, Gore
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0349106576
- ISBN 13
- 9780349106571
- Seller
-
Umea, Sweden
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Little Brown | 1997 | Mass Market Paperback | 192 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: 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. With the publication of his daring thrid novel The City and the Pillar in 1948, Gore Vidal shocked the American public, which has just begun to hail him as their newest and brightest young writer. It remains not only an authentic and profoundly importatnt social document but also a serious exploration of the nature of idealistic love. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.
Synopsis
Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw , written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel (SE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB-14876248
- Title
- The City And The Pillar
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0349106576
- ISBN 13
- 9780349106571
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- May 1, 1997
- Keywords
- Vänskap, Kärlek, Hemligheter, Amerika, 1940-tal.
Terms of Sale
h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
Biblio member since 2009
Umea
About h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
Antiquarian bookstore with focus on fiction and the humanities. We also sell new books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...