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Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

By Gore Vidal

By Gore Vidal

By Gore Vidal
Edited by Jay Parini

By Gore Vidal
Edited by Jay Parini

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Jun 16, 2009 | ISBN 9780307388681

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Jun 17, 2008 | ISBN 9780385526821

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    About Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

    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.

    About Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

    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.

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    About Gore Vidal

    Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays,… More about Gore Vidal

    About Gore Vidal

    Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays,… More about Gore Vidal

    Product Details

    Category: Essays & Literary Collections | Politics | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 16, 2009 | 480 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307388681

    Category: Essays & Literary Collections | Politics | Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 17, 2008 | 320 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780385526821

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    “Gore Vidal is the master essayist of our age.” —The Washington Post Book World“Vidal is the best all-around American man of letters since Edmund Wilson.” —Newsweek “Wonderfully selected. . . . All classic Vidal essays are here. . . . [They] confirm Vidal’s stature.” —The Buffalo News“Gore Vidal, essayist; so good that we cannot do without him. He is a treasure of the state.” —R.W.B. Lewis, The New York Times Book Review“Fearlessness and independence of mind are the strengths in this author’s arms, but his heart’s love is language and the richness of language.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction by Jay Parini

    PART ONE: READING THE WRITERS

    Novelists and Critics of the 1940s (1953)
    Tarzan Revisited (1963)
    The Top Ten Best-Sellers According to the Sunday: New York Times as of January 7, 1973 (1973)
    French Letters: Theories of the New Novel (1967)
    American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction (1974)
    Calvino’s Novels (1974)
    The Hacks of Academe (1976)
    Some Memories of the Glorious Bird and an Earlier Self (1976)
    Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes (1980)
    William Dean Howells (1983)
    Dawn Powell: The American Writer (1987)
    Montaigne (1992)
    Rabbit’s Own Burrow (1996)

    PART TWO: READING THE WORLD

    Passage to Egypt (1963)
    Pornography (1966)
    The Holy Family (1967)
    Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)
    Pink Triangle and Yellow Star (1981)
    Theodore Roosevelt: An American Sissy (1981)
    The Second American Revolution (1981)
    The National Security State (1988)
    Monotheism and Its Dicontents (1992)
    Black Tuesday (2002)
    State of the Union, (2004)

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