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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375727051

ISBN-139780375727054

eBay Product ID (ePID)2233120

Product Key Features

Book TitleCreation : a Novel

Number of Pages592 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicReligious, Literary, Historical

Publication Year2002

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorGore Vidal

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight17.1 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"An incredibly detailed and convincing picture of the ancient world." Anthony Burgess "Brilliantly realized. . . . Fertile, vivid, and ingenious. . . . [A] surging river of a book." Mary Renault,The New York Review of Books "His best novel. . . . There isn't a page ofCreationthat doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight" The New York Times "Highly literate, stylish, entertaining and provocative." The Wall Street Journal, "An incredibly detailed and convincing picture of the ancient world." Anthony Burgess "Brilliantly realized. . . . Fertile, vivid, and ingenious. . . . [A] surging river of a book." Mary Renault, The New York Review of Books "His best novel. . . . There isn't a page of Creation that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight" The New York Times "Highly literate, stylish, entertaining and provocative." The Wall Street Journal

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal813.54

SynopsisA sweeping novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure-in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal's original manuscript- Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world. Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong friend of Xerxes, spent most of his life as Persian ambassador for the great king Darius. He traveled to India, where he discussed nirvana with Buddha, and to the warring states of Cathay, where he learned of Tao from Master Li and fished on the riverbank with Confucius. Now blind and aged in Athens-the Athens of Pericles, Sophocles, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Socrates-Cyrus recounts his days as he strives to resolve the fundamental questions that have guided his life's journeys: how the universe was created, and why evil was created with good. In revisiting the fifth century b.c.-one of the most spectacular periods in history-Gore Vidal illuminates the ideas that have shaped civilizations for millennia., A sweeping novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure-in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal's original manuscript- Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world. Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong friend of Xerxes, spent most of his life as Persian ambassador for the great king Darius. He traveled to India, where he discussed nirvana with Buddha, and to the warring states of Cathay, where he learned of Tao from Master Li and fished on the riverbank with Confucius. Now blind and aged in Athens-the Athens of Pericles, Sophocles, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Socrates-Cyrus recounts his days as he strives to resolve the fundamental questions that have guided his life's journeys- how the universe was created, and why evil was created with good. In revisiting the fifth century b.c.-one of the most spectacular periods in history-Gore Vidal illuminates the ideas that have shaped civilizations for millennia.