Vidal, Gore
Vidal, Gore( 1925– ),after army service in World War II published his first novel, Williwaw (1946), about the reactions of passengers on a freighter caught in an Aleutian storm. Later novels include In a Yellow Wood (1947), characterizing a nonconforming army veteran; The City and the Pillar (1948, revised 1965), a sympathetic portrait of a young man isolated from most people because he is a homosexual; The Season of Comfort (1949), about a boy's conflict with his mother; A Search for the King (1950), about a troubadour's affection for his king, Richard the Lion-Hearted; Dark Green, Bright Red (1950), about a U.S. army officer in a Latin-American revolution; The Judgment of Paris (1952, revised 1965), a modern version of the Trojan tale applied to an American who finds himself during European travel; Messiah (1954, revised 1965), on a modern Madison Avenue messiah; Julian (1964),...
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