| The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal Contributor(s): Vidal, Gore (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307388689 ISBN-13: 9780307388681 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: 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 forays into criticism, reviewing, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. Among them are such classics as "The Top Ten Best-Sellers," "Dawn Powell: The American Writer," "Theodore Roosevelt: An American Sissy," "Pornography," and "The Second American Revolution." Edited and introduced by Gore Vidal's literary executor, Jay Parini, it will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Political Science | Essays - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.28" W x 7.98" (0.78 lbs) 480 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature. |