{"product_id":"clouds-and-eclipses-the-collected-short-stories-9780786718108","title":"Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e by Vidal, Gore. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780786718108.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCelebrated 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 authors triumphs writing in other genres. Still, Vidals 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 Vidals complete short fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974314094645,"sku":"ByrdShop_0786718102","price":60.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780786718108_7d776dc2-0e75-4e9c-a883-05f717b1615a.jpg?v=1778712696","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/clouds-and-eclipses-the-collected-short-stories-9780786718108","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}