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Title: SELECTED ESSAYS
By: Gore Vidal
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0349120455
ISBN 13: 9780349120454
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Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 6 December, 2007
Pages: 464
Description: * A new, accessible selection of brilliant and essential reading from one of America's modern masters
Synopsis: Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often courageous - and outrageous! - forthrightness, Vidal explores his keystone subjects: primarily the worlds of literature and US politics; but also showbiz, sexuality and modern manners. His gaze ranges from the fiction of Calvino and Updike to the politics of pornography to the Clinton and Bush administrations, America post-September 11 and contemporary imperial ambitions. These essays are a witty and brilliant assessment of our times from the most memorable of American literary masters.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Abacus
Returns: Non-returnable
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