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Selected Essays Gore Vidal

Selected Essays By Gore Vidal

Selected Essays by Gore Vidal


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* A new, accessible selection of brilliant and essential reading from one of America's modern masters

Selected Essays Summary

Selected Essays by Gore Vidal

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 modern manners. His gaze ranges from the fiction of Calvino and Updike to the politics of pornography to the Clinton and Bush administrations, America post-September 11 and contemporary imperial ambitions. These essays are a witty and brilliant assessment of our times from the most memorable of American literary masters.

Selected Essays Reviews

** '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 * INDEPENDENT *

About Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.

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GOR001544138
9780349120454
0349120455
Selected Essays by Gore Vidal
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
20071206
464
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