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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780349120454
- ISBN-10: 0349120455
- Publisher: Abacus (UK)
- Publish Date: December 2007
- Dimensions: 7.81 x 5.06 x 0.93 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.98 pounds
- Page Count: 460
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