Gore Vidal
Birth date: October 03, 1925
Died: July 31, 2012
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Though 'Myra Breckinridge' offends on every level, though it is trashy, absurd, vile - also criminally prurient - I love this book. This novel, like Myra herself, cannot be easily categorized or made comfortable to readers. The novel is made up of the pages of Myra's journal, kept at the request o...
Like scandalous gossip about celebrities? This is the novel for you.'Burr' is fiction, but I love a good story. Vidal's superbly researched novel brings Aaron Burr to life and this reader was willingly swept up into the romance of an anti-hero. 'Burr' shrewdly picks apart the myths and legends surro...
bookshelves: giftee, paper-read, historical-fiction, adventurous-april-2016, north-americas, published-1973, tbr-busting-2016, series, lit-richer, biography Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Read from December 25, 2015 to April 16, 2016 Description: Burr is a portrait ...
bookshelves: autumn-2015, published-2011, radio-4, north-americas, us-new-york, mystery-thriller, politics, art-forms, communist-lit-richer, pee-eyes Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 06 to 21, 2015 BABThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nnnlyDescription: With McCarthyism ...
The only novel of Vidal's I've read so far is 'The City and the Pillar', and reading this memoir makes me want to seek out more of his work. The prose is graceful and fluid, full of education and humor. He moves from the present to the past as his memory serves him, the memoir settling down chronolo...
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