The Golden Age
Number 7 in series
$45.52
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2002
Summary
THE GOLDEN AGE is the final, eponymous novel that brings to an end what Gabriel García Márquez has called ‘Gore Vidal’s magnificent series of historical novels or novelised histories’, NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE.
Like a latter-day Anthony Trollope, Vidal masterfully balances the personal with the political, the invented with the historical fact. His heroine from Hollywood, Caroline Sanford, reappears in Washington as President Roosevelt schemes to get the USA into the war by provoking the J…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349114279 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349114277 |
| Author: | Gore Vidal |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2002 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 201mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Narratives of empire |
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Wonderfully compelling. It is serious and entertaining. It rings diamond-true. It is a novel for grown-ups; and that is something very rare in contemporary fiction
Vidal’s combination of learning, wit and disdain gets into your blood. He can change the way you think - OBSERVER
This entertaining portrait of an imperial elite may well be, as Vidal intends, the version of US history that survives in the coming decades. - IRISH TIMESCrackpot theory has seldom been so suavely and entertainingly put across. - NEW STATESMANVidal’s satiric thrusts are enormous fun. - DAILY TELEGRAPHWonderfully compelling. It is serious and entertaining. It rings diamond-true. It is a novel for grown-ups; and that is something very rare in contemporary fiction - SCOTSMANBrilliantly evokes the decade when the US believed it was the undisputed master of the universe … imperious, well-informed and wickedly accomplished, it brings American politics to life in a way that few other modern novels can match - DAILY MAILOur greatest living historical novelist - ANTHONY BURGESSIconoclastic, yet never mere satirical caricature, this remarkable novel sequence is a melange of historical demystification … The bold sweep of Vidal’s design continues to enthral, and throughout The Golden Age, as throughout the sequence, he delights in giving the read entree to a heady variety of gatherings … Vidal’s touch in handling these set pieces and portraying the famous remains wonderfully assured - LITERARY REVIEWAbout The Author
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal has been at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century. He died on 31st July 2012.
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