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Title: Selected Essays Of Gore Vidal Format: Paperback Product dimensions: 480 pages, 8 X 5.15 X 1.03 in Shipping dimensions: 480 pages, 8 X 5.15 X 1.03 in Published: June 16, 2009 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Language: English. The following ISBNs are associated with this title: ISBN - 10: 0307388689. ISBN - 13: 9780307388681. Appropriate for ages: All ages. Look for similar.
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Gore Vidal, who died in 2012, was a ubiquitous figure on the cultural scene for more than 50 years. Not only was he a bestselling novelist, he was also friends with presidents John F Kennedy and Bill Clinton. His collected works add up to 25 novels, several Broadway plays and hundreds of essays. He won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 1993 for his collected essays.
Once upon a time a friend of mine included Gore Vidal among his list of closeted anarchists. I have held Vidal in high regard ever since, despite having read precious little from him.The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 is simply the one volume of his two dozen plus books of essays and non-fiction.
The official story, as set down in Vidal’s memoirs and essays, and in hundreds of reviews, profiles, and, finally, in his obituaries—he died in 2012—went like this: grandson of Thomas P.
Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism.
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal. by Gore Vidal Jay Parini ebook. Read a sample Read a sample Description; Creators; Details; Reviews; Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and.