Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories - Couverture souple

Vidal, Gore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0786718102 ISBN 13 : 9780786718108

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2006

Synopsis

Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and commentator, Gore Vidal is less known for the exquisitely crafted short fiction he wrote as a young man. Like the work of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, his stories have been overshadowed by the author's triumphs writing in other genres. Still, Vidal's short fiction offers us a portrait of the young artist in the 1940s and 1950s. His subtle and comic tales often center on adolescence and homosexual themes. In Three Stratagems, a middle-aged gay man encounters a male prostitute while vacationing in Key West. In The Zenner Trophy, the star athlete at an elite boys school is expelled for sexual relations with a classmate. These stories were gathered along with five others into a 1956 volume, A Thirsty Evil, and for decades were thought to comprise Vidal's complete short fiction.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. Winner of the National Book Award for United Sates: essays 1952-92, Vidal lives in Los Angeles.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0786718102
• ISBN 13: 9780786718108
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160