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A new, accessible selection of brilliant and essential reading from one of America’s modern masters
Selected Essays
$74.36
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464 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2008
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Summary
‘Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what’s right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly’ - John Simpson, Daily Mail
This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal’s essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often courageous - and outrageous! - forthrightness, Vidal explores his keystone subjects: primarily the worlds of literature and US politics; but also showbiz, sexuality and…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349120454 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349120455 |
| Author: | Gore Vidal |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 31mm |
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** ‘Vidal never writes a pedestrian sentence; whatever he’s talking about, you’re going to pick up something memorable, informative, outrageous, or sometimes all three at once. No bookself is civilised without this - GUARDIAN
** ‘America’s finest essayist at his most astringent - INDEPENDENTAbout The Author
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal was the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, numerous screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and the critically lauded PALIMPSEST: A MEMOIR.
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