Vidal, SeverineBiblio.com
Vidal, GoreBiblio.com
The City and the Pillar
1949réf. 50381London: John Lehmann 1949. First UK edition. Hardcover. very good -. Octavo. 270pp. Original brown cloth gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Spine a bit faded and dulled. Vidal's third novel which shocked the public with its direct and unadorned examination of a homosexual main character Vidal 1925-2012 in this novel used what he called a "flat gray naturalistic style." The novel became a sensation but received generally negative reviews. In 1974 he explained to The Paris Review that "Tactically if not aesthetically this was for a good reason. Up until then homosexuality in literature was always exotic. I wanted to deal with an absolutely ordinary all-American lower-middle-class young man and his world. To show the dead-on "normality" of the homosexual experience. John Lehmann hardcover
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