Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies
The Life of Gore Vidal
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
8 November 2016
Summary
An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini’s biography probes behind the glittering surface of Vidal’s colourful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well - a virtual Who’s Who of the American Cen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349139401 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349139407 |
| Author: | Jay Parini |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 8 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 458g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 36mm |
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He has painted a portrait that is by turns shocking, witty and very funny - just like the much-missed man himself - Evening Standard
Writer, pundit, bon viveur, frequenter of chat-show couches, Vidal will be remembered by his contemporaries, Parini is sure, “as a meteor who streaked through the night skies, with a fantail of sparks”. He is less certain about future generations. “Will they read him? It’s impossible to know.” With this fine biography, he has done his part in ensuring they will - Independenta marvellous new biography … a portrait that is both affectionate and balanced - The EconomistAs much an intimate memoir as a scholarly biography - Mail on SundayAbout The Author
Jay Parini
Jay Parini is a Professor of English at Middlebury College and is the author of the novels, The Last Station (adapted as an Academy Award-nominated film and translated into more than thirty languages) and Benjamin’s Crossing. He has written biographies of Robert Frost, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck.
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