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

He has got to be one of the best writers of the twentieth century. (Originally published in 1948). We're inviting the city of Seattle. Turns out, everyone has read Crazy Salad and The City and the Pillar, and adores “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”. He thought Britain's intelligence service was called 'M Sixteen'). Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt was one of the inspirations for Lolita, and compared to Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar (written around the same time) was much more daring. Perhaps the hysterical reaction to The City and the Pillar was what started a long process of alienation from the Establishment into which Vidal had been born. It also imparts which of the celebrity's books, characters or songs is the most beloved among one's circle. THE CITY AND THE PILLAR, GORE VIDAL ASTERIOS POLYP, DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2009…I look forward to the new collection every year! But it was his second, The City and the Pillar, that truly established him. €�The City and the Pillar”, Vintage Books Reprint, 1995.