Creation
A Novel
$46.99
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2002
Summary
A sweeping bestselling novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure.
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, where he learned of Tao from Master Li and fished on the riverbank with Confucius. Now blind and aged in Athens—the Athens of Pericles, Sophocles, Thucydides, Herod…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375727054 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375727051 |
| Author: | Gore Vidal, Anthony Burgess |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 133mm x 202mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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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
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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