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The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal - ISBN: 9780349110721
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Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that somehow, he is expected… An old man, Bentsen, shows him around, and T. realises that all is not as it seems.

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    1 November 1999

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Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that somehow, he is expected. An old man, Bentsen, shows him around, and T. realises that all is not as it seems. As he goes to examine a Native American exhibit, he is drawn magically into the nineteenth-century world of a reservation of Sioux Indians. They like what they see of T. and immediately get the pot boi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349110721
ISBN-10:0349110727
Author:Gore Vidal
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:1 November 1999
Weight:196g
Dimensions:129mm x 190mm x 196mm
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With a fluidity of style matching an action that dances elegantly in time and space, Vidal’s flesh-and-blood ghosts race the mind into a higher space.

Falling somewhere between the realms of Henry Adams and all of Monty Python… - Jay McInerny

This is a jeu d’esprit, an iridescent bubble of a book - SUNDAY TIMES

America’s best living novelist - Allan Massie

Vidal’s combination of learning, wit and disdain gets into your blood. He can change the way you think - the only definition of a great writer which makes sense - OBSERVER

With a fluidity of style matching an action that dances elegantly in time and space, Vidal’s flesh-and-blood ghosts race the mind into a higher space. - Mail on Sunday

Vidal cleverly satirises the hubris of American hegemony. - The Times

About The Author

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal is one of the greatest living American novelists and essayists. He has written numerous Hollywood screenplays, including BEN HUR, and ran as a Democratic candidate for Congress. He appeared with Tim Robbins in the film BOB ROBERTS and most recently in Gattaca (1998).

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