In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy and Jim spends years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the opportunity occurs, it explodes with violence and pain. This was one of the first pieces of explicitly gay fiction.
* The third novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
* The fourth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
Vidal on Vidal - a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels
The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece
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