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Clouds and Eclipses The Collected Short Stories
by Gore Vidal
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0786718102
- ISBN 13
- 9780786718108
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About This Item
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.
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- Bookseller
- Janson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 316162515
- Title
- Clouds and Eclipses The Collected Short Stories
- Author
- Gore Vidal
- Format/Binding
- New
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0786718102
- ISBN 13
- 9780786718108
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- July 20, 2006
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