Clouds and eclipses
the collected short stories
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Word Count
41,500 words, Guess
Page Count
166 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22758224M
- ISBN-139780786718108
- OCLC Control Number70709173
- OCLC Control Numbercloudseclipsesco00vida
- Library of Congress Control Number2007274351
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- Goodreads8720
- LibraryThing1541770
Classifications
- LCCPS
Description
"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."--Publisher website (August 2006).
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