Selected Essays

Zusatztext ** 'America's finest essayist at his most astringent Informationen zum Autor Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012. Klappentext Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail 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. * A new, accessible selection of brilliant and essential reading from one of America's modern masters Zusammenfassung * A new, accessible selection of brilliant and essential reading from one of America's modern masters

Product details

• Authors: Gore Vidal
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.12.2007
• EAN: 9780349120454
• ISBN: 978-0-349-12045-4
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Fiction > Poetry, drama; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General, Literary essays