Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories
by Gore Vidal
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Author: Gore VidalEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-09
ISBN: 0786718102
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Book Review: Uneven
Summary: 3 Stars
I enjoyed the short preface very much, but the stories were of uneven quality. "Erlinda and Mr. Coffin" is exotic, fun, and while some social observations are made, it is a story written for the pleasure of spinning a tale. "Pages from an Abandoned Journal" is interesting and offers some insight into the lifestyle of a segment of the gay population. "Clounds and Eclipses", the hitherto unpublished story based on a childhood recollection of Tennessee Williams, is without merit, and the first story of the collection should be skipped.
Summary of Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories
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 his triumphs writing in other genres.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. However, an eighth story was recently discovered among Vidal?s private papers at Harvard University. Entitled Clouds and Eclipses, the story is based on a true account from the childhood of Tennessee Williams. Taking its name from that lost story, this collection brings Vidal?s body of short fiction to completion for the first time.
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