Myra Breckinridge And Myron

Nothing in the versatile Vidal’s past will quite prepare the reader for Myra Breckinridge * Time *A masterpiece * The Listener *Shocking some, tickling others, and outraging many * Newsweek *A genuinely, brutally witty book, a parody on Hollywood, pop intellectualism, pornography and just about anything else you could name * New York Times *Myra should be enjoyed as a romp, but the harsh accurate social satire but be digested * New Statesman *After many readings, Myra Breckinridge continues to give wicked pleasure, and still seems to have fixed the limit beyond which the most advanced aesthetic neo-pornography ever can go – Harold Bloom * New York Review of Books *Has literary decency fallen so low? * Time *I consider Vidal to be a master of that new form which is taking shape in world literature and which we may call the hyper-novel or the novel elevated to the square or the cube * Italo Calvino *

Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote ‘The Narratives of a Golden Age’ series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.

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