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Essential Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal (1999, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100679457461

ISBN-139780679457466

eBay Product ID (ePID)559708

Product Key Features

Book TitleEssential Gore Vidal

Number of PagesXxx, 988 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

TopicGeneral

GenreFiction, Literary Collections

AuthorGore Vidal

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight47.9 Oz

Item Length9.7 in

Item Width6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-026590

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal818.5/4/09

SynopsisThe range and size of Gore Vidal's literary achievement is remarkable. He is a master of the historical novel, in which he has explored American history, ancient history, and the history of religion. He has developed his own style of science fiction combined with satire, and in the books he refers to as his "inventions" he writes cautionary tales about sex, politics, art, and philosophy. He is at once a contrarian, a wise man, and a romantic. He is also wickedly funny, and often outrageous. All of these qualities are evident in his essays, which deal with things about which he feels passionately. He writes about other writers--Tennessee Williams, Henry James, Montaigne, Edmund Wilson--and about public life, and his own life, which has been complicated and rich. This collection (the only single volume that includes both Vidal's fiction and his essays) contains two complete long works--Myra Breckinridge, perhaps his most famous novel, and The Best Man, a play about the American presidency. There are selections from The City and the Pillar, his early, controversial novel about homosexual love, and excerpts from such later works as Julian, Duluth, and Live from Golgotha. Selections from the American history novels--Burr, Lincoln, 1876, Empire, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C.--have been woven together to provide a continuous narrative. There are twenty-five essays here, on the many subjects that have engaged Vidal during his long career. The editor, Fred Kaplan, who is writing the first major biography of Vidal, has provided an introduction to the work as a whole as well as an introductory explanation of each selection. He has also prepared a biographical chronology and a bibliography.

LC Classification NumberPS3543.I26A6 1999