The Golden Age
A Novel
$39.99
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2001
Summary
The Golden Age is Vidal’s crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, from a republic into an empire.
The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C. newspaper publisher, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher of the independent intellectual journal The Americ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375724817 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375724818 |
| Author: | Gore Vidal |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2001 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
”[A] true magnum opus.”–The New York Times“A smart, witty Washington novel… You’ll be gripped to the edge of your Chesterfield… Long live Gore Vidal.”–Chicago Sun-Times“Rich in dialogue and mirthless humor, The Golden Age is… a worthy conclusion to one of the finest sustained historical visions in American literature.”–The New York Observer
About The Author
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. Two novels in his Narratives of Empire series, Lincoln and 1876, were the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, respectively. In 1993, a collection of his criticism, United States-Essays 1952-1992, won the National Book Award. He divides his time between Ravello, Italy, and Los Angeles.
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