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The City and the Pillar Summary & Study Guide Description
The City and the Pillar Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The City and the Pillar is the story of a man who never outgrows the homoerotic longings of his first schoolboy crush. Bernard Dick has pointed out how neatly the book extrapolates the recursive themes of American literature seen in Cooper, Melville, and Twain, including the boyhood idyll, the mysterious call of the sea, the quest for the unattainable, and the taming of the frontier — in this case a cultural frontier. More...
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