Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 16. jún. 2009 - 480 síður
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.
 

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Novelists and Critics of the 1940s 1953
3
Tarzan Revisited 1963
17
The Top Ten BestSellers According to the Sunday
23
Theories of the New Novel 1967
47
The Matter of Fiction 1974
73
Calvinos Novels 1974
101
The Hacks of Academe 1976
123
Some Memories of the Glorious Bird
135
READING THE WORLD
265
Pornography 1966
289
The Holy Family 1967
303
Homage to Daniel Shays 1972
323
Pink Triangle and Yellow Star 1981
339
An American Sissy 1981
357
The Second American Revolution 1981
373
The National Security State 1988
399

This Critic and This
155
William Dean Howells 1983
167
The American Writer 1987
193
Montaigne 1992
225
Rabbits Own Burrow 1996
239
Monotheism and Its Discontents 1992
409
Black Tuesday 2002
417
State of the Union 2004
451
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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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