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Title: The Essential Gore Vidal : A Gore Vidal Reader by Gore Vidal, Fred Kaplan ISBN: 0-679-45746-1 Publisher: Random House Inc Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Gore Vidal: A man of many talents
Comment: I s Gore Vidal a great writer? It depends on what he is writing. This compilation is long overdue as Vidal has never been taken as seriously by the Eastern literary establishment as he deserves. Certainly, he is one of the very few serious writers who also know how to entertain. This is what makes him so successful. Included here is his play, "The Best Man," the complete "Myra Breckenridge," selections from his historical novels, and a number of essays. My own opinion is that few writers are capable of such elegant prose as Vidal is when he is writing in the essay form. He understands politics better than any other fictional writer, which is why his historical novels make such splendid reading. His wit is uneven; brilliantly hilarious and insightful at its best, unnecessarily vulgar and savagely mean at its worst, which is why his comic novels are such hit and miss affairs. Vidal's work, taken as a whole, is an impressive library. Few good writers have been as productive as he, and who else can claim to have been consistently on the bestseller lists for nearly four decades as he has? Anyone who admires Vidal will argue with some of the selections here but there is also much to entertain and enlighten. Enjoy.
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Title: United States: Essays, 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal ISBN: 0767908066 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings by Gore Vidal, Donald Weise ISBN: 1573440825 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal ISBN: 037572639X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (The Real Story Series) by Gore Vidal ISBN: 1878825003 Publisher: Odonian Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal ISBN: 156025405X Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 10 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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