Selected Essays
Author | : Gore Vidal |
Publisher | : Abacus (UK) |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2007 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105124043535 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.