Creation - Gore Vidal • BookLikes (ISBN:0394500156)

Creation

by: Gore Vidal (author)

Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9780394500157 (0394500156)

Publish date: February 12th 1981

Publisher: Random House (NYC)

Pages no: 510

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Literature, American, Historical Fiction, Religion, Philosophy

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Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it

12 years ago

http://davidsarkies.booklikes.com Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd 5.0 An historical novel of truly epic proportions

text An historical novel of truly epic proportions

I didn't realise that Gore Vidal was what is called a revisionist when it came to his historical novels, but it only makes me want to pick up more of his books because revisionists tend to give us an alternate view of history that differs from the history that is written by the winners. This book is...

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A Wholly Reluctant Blog rated it

13 years ago

http://seandelauder.booklikes.com A Wholly Reluctant Blog 5.0

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Persian history at the peak of the Achaemenid Empire (5th century BCE) is pretty neatly summed up in a few lines from our high school world history courses, largely in connection with Greek history. We hear a few snippets about the Persian rulers, Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes; a big paragraph about the...

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riley rated it

14 years ago

http://riley.booklikes.com riley 4.0 Creation: A Novel

text Creation: A Novel

I absolutely can't stand Vidal as a non-fiction writer and generally as a man of opinions or "letters" or what have you but this is the second novel of his I have read which I have thoroughly enjoyed. He appears to be doing two things with his revisionist history in this case: presenting an alterna...

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