# The City and the Pillar

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- Book: [The City And The Pillar](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal/the-city-and-the-pillar) ([The City And The Pillar.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal/the-city-and-the-pillar.md))
- Authors: [Gore Vidal](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0003-037-8
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2003-12-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A literary cause célèbre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American...