The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal by Vidal, Gore

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal--novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist--is America's premier man of letters. No...
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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal by Vidal, Gore

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

$38.50

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

$38.50
Author: Gore Vidal
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature.

Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/16/2009
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.28w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780307388681

About the Author
Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.Jay Parini (born 1948) is an American writer and academic. Among his works of fiction and criticism are The Last Station, John Steinbeck, and Benjamin's Crossing. Parini is Gore Vidal's literary executor and a regular contributor to various journals and newspapers, including The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Guardian (U.K.). In 1976, he cofounded New England Review, and he has taught at Middlebury College since 1982. He lives in Vermont.


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