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Quentin Broughall
This book examines Gore Vidal's lifelong engagement with the ancient world and the influence of antiquity on himself and the primary subjects of his work: sex, politics and religion. Suitable…
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Gore Vidal
In this profoundly moving work of epic proportion and intense human sympathy, Abraham Lincoln is observed by his loved ones, his rivals, and his future assassin.
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The incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history–this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C.–and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights and piercing observations…
Fred Kaplan
Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational - finding words to describe Gore Vidal is never difficult. This book provides a biography of…
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Tim Teeman
Gore Vidal was a good friend for over sixty years. If you want to know who Gore really was, read In Bed with Gore Vidal, which uncovers, and evokes, his…
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In these interviews, Gore Vidal proves himself to be a witty, acerbic, cantankerous conversationalist, one who is willing to - and often eager to - defy conventional wisdom and lacerate…
The very best of Gore Vidal’s fiction and non-fiction including correspondence with Jackie Kennedy. This collection (the only single volume that includes Vidal’s fiction and his essays) contains two complete…
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Gore Vidal-novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist-is America’s premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative…
Susan C. Baker,Curtis S. Gibson
Baker and Gibson show that while Vidal’s novels are tremendously entertaining, they are also serious examinations of a recurring theme-the decline of the West in general and the decline of…
S. T. Joshi
Since the publication of his first novel in 1946, Gore Vidal has been one of America’s most successful writers, as well as one of its most outspoken public figures. The…
Dennis Altman
* A major new examination of the ways in which Vidal’s writings on history, politics, sex and religion throw into focus our understandings of the United States. * Ranges widely…
Gore Vidal’s only collection of short stories, first printed in 1956, demonstrates his ability to alternate and explore different literary styles.
In this brilliant sequel to his acclaimed, bestselling memoir, Palimpsest, celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary…
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In Death Before Bedtime, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is invited to the home of a venerable senator to help strategize his imminent run for president. On the night before…
Set in post-war Europe, fresh-out-of-law-school Philip Warren takes a year to discover his future. In this classic coming-of-age story, Philip journeys through various affairs, misadventures, and cities full of unforgettable…
Gore Vidal, winner of the National Book Award, once again proves himself a provocative contemporary American critic. In this far-ranging collection of essays, he brings his keen intellect to a…
Williwaw was Gore Vidal’s first novel, written at nineteen, when he was first mate of a U.S. army freight supply ship. Here he writes of a ship caught plying the…
With a New Introduction
Washington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal’s Narratives of Empire,his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating…
Robert Holton has returned from Europe and settled into a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroker. He suppresses memories of nights of love in Florence as he tries…
Gore Vidal’s satirical fantasy, with a new introduction by the author. From his long-time hiding-place in provincial Egypt, Eugene Luther tells the story of John Cave, a former Californian undertaker…
A teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. Surrounded by figures from…
Here is Vidal at his best, continuing his bestselling series bringing America into the 1920s. Hollywood re-creates the last days of Woodrow Wilson through the turbulent Harding years when Hollywood…
The final volume in Vidal’s celebrated and bestselling series of American Chronicle novels is a unique pageant of the American experience from the U.S. entry in World War II to…
In the long-awaited conclusion to his bestselling trilogy, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to…
A novel about the art of writing itself.
Gore Vidal’s metaphysical thriller about an end-of-the- world cult.
Gore Vidal’s two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Myra Breckinridge arrives in Hollywood intending to prove that it is possible to work…
Journey into the sophisticated, scandal-ridden cosmopolis of high society …
Gore Vidal’s fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a…
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, a TV crew will record the Crucifixion, live from Golgotha, in order to boost NBC in the ratings war. In this iconoclastic novel…
Young Clay Overbury, Senator Burden Day’s assistant, has both a modest background and immense ambitions. Enid Canford marries him, so providing the Sanford newspaper dynasty with a direct line to…
Caroline is an oddity; she was raised in France where they teach rich girls to talk and think. American society women, required only to think they are interesting beings, are…
Charlie is the bastard son of Aaron Burr; Emma is beautiful; and both think it is prudent to return from penury in Europe and secure a marriage for Emma. But…
* A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and themselves. A great war novel and Vidal’s first!
A novel of intrigue set in central America.
Gore Vidal is the most elegant, erudite and eclectic writer of his generation’ - Roy Hattersley, Guardian
* A new, accessible selection of brilliant and essential reading from one of America’s modern masters
From the author of MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DARK GREEN, BRIGHT RED, a novel, first published in 1949, describing the growing-up of a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when…
Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that…
The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called perpetual war for perpetual peace. The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military…
