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City and the Pillar, The

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City and the Pillar, The
portraying a young gay separated from “normal” people. [Am. Lit.: The City and the Pillar]


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1932 Christopher Isherwood's second novel, The Memorial, portrays a gay man's grief at the loss of his lover to war, a theme repeated in Gore Vidal's 1948 The City and the Pillar, the most talked-about gay book of the '40s.
Vidal is the best-selling author of Myra Breckinridge, The City and the Pillar, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, and
 
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