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Selected Essays

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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.

Details

  • 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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