 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
CLOUDS AND ECLIPSES
THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES |
| By: |
Gore Vidal |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£7.99 |
|
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source
it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0786718102 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780786718108 |
| Publisher: |
CARROLL & GRAF PUBLISHERS INC |
| Pub. date: |
20 July, 2006 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
Celebrated for more than 50 years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and commentator, Vidal's short fiction offers a portrait of the young artist in the 1940s and 1950s. |
| 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. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|