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Essays 1952-1992

By:

Gore Vidal

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Paperback / softback

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Gore Vidal's reputation as "America's finest essayist" is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992). State of the union deals with politics and public life: sex, drugs, money, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, "The Holy Family" (his essay on the Kennedys), Nixon, and finally "Monotheism and its Discontents", a scathing critique of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In state of being, we are given personal responses to people and events: recollections of his childhood, E. Nesbit, Tarzan, Tennessee Williams and Anais Nin.

Author Biography:

GORE VIDAL the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, numerous screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and the critically lauded PALIMPSEST: A MEMOIR. He lives in California. Author Location: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles PALIMPSEST (978 0 349 10800 1) / BURR / 1876 / EMPIRE / HOLLYWOOD / WASHINGTON D.C. / MYRA BRECKENRIDGE etc.

Release date Australia

September 22nd, 1994

Author

Gore Vidal

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

1312

Dimensions

132x196x63

ISBN-13

9780349105246

Product ID

1688867

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