The City and the Pillar Gore Vidal
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

But it was his second, The City and the Pillar, that truly established him. Http://www.amazon.com/The-City-Pillar-A-Novel/dp/1400030374 Also, everyone who comes, please have one talking point you'd like us to discuss. Our Gay section on Amazon is I'd say 98% not Kindled yet, in time we are going to see publishers running to get their books into the ebook formats. Just finished Gore Vidal's “The City and the Pillar,” a novel to which I should have treated myself years ago. Christopher Isherwood was one of them. Bangkok City Pillar Shrine & The Guardian spirits in the City Pillar Shrine Bangkok Province Thailand Bangkok City Pillar Shrine is the important place of Thai people. Photo-1 This book has been on my to read list for a long time, I've been meaning to read it for far too long. That the Times even deigned to interview Vidal was noteworthy. It's near the Supreme Court, opposite to Wat Phra Kaeo. But I probably wasn't ready to read it then. Whatever you want or are interested in. Gore Vidal is an author, playwright, screenwriter and political activist with an estimated net worth with $12. Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at College of the Desert In 1947, Gore Vidal sent a copy of his soon-to-be-published novel, The City and the Pillar, to a number of established writers. I'm not sure why it kept getting passed over, I always knew that I would enjoy it. After publishing a Hemingway-style war novel when he was barely twenty, he attracted unusual attention in 1948 with his third novel, The City and the Pillar. Was a premature gay martyr (on this, you don't know half the story: see Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde on his underground activities), and therefore a “natural” topic for the author of The City and the Pillar.