Creation by Gore Vidal - ISBN: 9780375727054
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Ancient world’s wisdom and adventures in a timeless philosophical quest.

Creation

A Novel

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  • Paperback

    592 pages

  • Release Date

    27 August 2002

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Summary

A sweeping bestselling novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure—in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal’s original manuscript—Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world.

Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong friend of Xerxes, spent most of his life as Persian ambassador for the great king Darius. He traveled to India, where he discussed nirvana with Buddha, and to the warring states of Cathay,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780375727054
ISBN-10:0375727051
Author:Gore Vidal
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:592
Release Date:27 August 2002
Weight:476g
Dimensions:202mm x 133mm x 33mm
Series:Vintage International
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“An incredibly detailed and convincing picture of the ancient world.” –Anthony Burgess“Brilliantly realized… . Fertile, vivid, and ingenious… . [A] surging river of a book.” –Mary Renault, The New York Review of Books“His best novel… . There isn’t a page of Creation that doesn’t inform and very few pages that do not delight” –The New York Times“Highly literate, stylish, entertaining and provocative.” –The Wall Street Journal

About The Author

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.

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