In a Yellow Wood, Gore Vidal
In a Yellow Wood, Gore Vidal
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In a Yellow Wood

Author: Gore Vidal

Narrator: Pete Simonelli

Unabridged: 4 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/29/2019

Synopsis

By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, clubs and the brittle, played-out demi-monde…by day a wasteland of hollow men, lonely apartments and empty morning coffee stands…Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business. The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city.And when Carla turns up unexpectedly from his more passionate past, Robert finds he must choose between the fixed path of money-making and dull conventionality, and the fraught, uncertain path of love and freedom.

About Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on February 28, 2019

Vidal’s second novel flirts with some of the themes he would subsequently tackle in The City and the Pillar, eschewing a dependence on plotline and paying more attention to character development. The introductory prose feels somewhat stilted—as if, as with Williwaw, in emulation of writerly minimali......more

Goodreads review by Bryan on August 07, 2012

I had only read essays and articles of Vidal's and had been meaning to read his fictional work for years now. I'll admit I only really checked In a Yellow Wood out because I stumbled across it in the library the day after his death and I've got to say, I enjoyed this much more than I expected. Aesthe......more

Goodreads review by Seamus on November 30, 2020

Not a gripping tale but well written in a direct Hemingway-esque style, with smartly drawn characters. The novel deals in part with a post WW2 sense of lostness, and the attempt to adjust to workaday civilian life. At the same time the main character struggles to choose between a conventional, unsati......more

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