A young man comes upon the yellow wood where two roads stretch before him - two ways of life from which he must choose, and follow only one. Vidal writes of one day in this man's life, the day when the conflict is resolved. The intense drama of the choosing is narrated with Vidal's amazing insight into feelings and motives. For twenty-four hours the reader lives with Robert Holton, the young ex-soldier, and tries with him an experimental step on the road not taken - and knows why he must choose as he does. In a Yellow Wood is a moving story of lonliness and of love, the need of it, and the denial of it.
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A young man comes upon the yellow wood where two roads stretch before him - two ways of life from which he must choose, and follow only one. Vidal writes of one day in this man's life, the day when the conflict is resolved. The intense drama of the choosing is narrated with Vidal's amazing insight into feelings and motives. For twenty-four hours the reader lives with Robert Holton, the young ex-soldier, and tries with him an experimental step on the road not taken - and knows why he must choose as he does. In a Yellow Wood is a moving story of lonliness and of love, the need of it, and the denial of it.