

The City and the Pillar
Author: Gore Vidal
Narrator: Will Damron
Unabridged: 5 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 10/15/2019
Author: Gore Vidal
Narrator: Will Damron
Unabridged: 5 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 10/15/2019
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.
gay misery porn. the writing is polished and sophisticated, no surprise given that it is by the massively talented Gore Vidal. also, why aren't more people named "Gore"? this was absorbing despite also being boring and depressing, if that even makes sense. sometimes, strong writing can carry me thro......more
So few of my GR friends have read this and other Gore Vidal classics, I have to pose the question: where does Vidal stand in the American pantheon? Do his historical novels about the Republic turn readers off for their political content and supposedly dry writing? Does his late career as polemicist......more
3.5, rounded up. I'm pretty sure I read this a long, long time ago, but the memory is rather vague. As the first in a planned year-long look back at some of the seminal works of gay literature, this was de rigueur for a revisit. First off, it is fairly amazing that a book so upfront and forthright ab......more
«Credo che l’amore sia sempre una cosa tragica, per tutti, sempre». «Ma è ciò che rende la vita interessante. Come possiamo valutare una cosa fino a che non è finita?». «Niente luce senza oscurità?». «Sì. E niente dolore senza piacere». Virginia. Anni ’40. Bob Ford, il migliore amico di Jim Willard, si è......more