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Gore Vidal
In this profoundly moving work of epic proportion and intense human sympathy, Abraham Lincoln is observed by his loved ones, his rivals, and his future assassin.
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Observed alternately by his loved ones, his rivals and his future assassins, Lincoln at first appears as an inept and na?ve backwoods lawyer. People in this novel are not averse…
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The incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history–this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C.–and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights and piercing observations…
In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy and Jim spends years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the opportunity occurs, it…
Gore Vidal’s two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Myra Breckinridge arrives in Hollywood intending to prove that it is possible to work…
Caroline is an oddity; she was raised in France where they teach rich girls to talk and think. American society women, required only to think they are interesting beings, are…
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Fred Kaplan
Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational - finding words to describe Gore Vidal is never difficult. This book provides a biography of…
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Tim Teeman
Gore Vidal was a good friend for over sixty years. If you want to know who Gore really was, read In Bed with Gore Vidal, which uncovers, and evokes, his…
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The very best of Gore Vidal’s fiction and non-fiction including correspondence with Jackie Kennedy. This collection (the only single volume that includes Vidal’s fiction and his essays) contains two complete…
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In these interviews, Gore Vidal proves himself to be a witty, acerbic, cantankerous conversationalist, one who is willing to - and often eager to - defy conventional wisdom and lacerate…
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was…
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…
Susan C. Baker,Curtis S. Gibson
Baker and Gibson show that while Vidal’s novels are tremendously entertaining, they are also serious examinations of a recurring theme-the decline of the West in general and the decline of…
S. T. Joshi
Since the publication of his first novel in 1946, Gore Vidal has been one of America’s most successful writers, as well as one of its most outspoken public figures. The…
Dennis Altman
* A major new examination of the ways in which Vidal’s writings on history, politics, sex and religion throw into focus our understandings of the United States. * Ranges widely…
In this sequel to PALIMPSEST, the celebrated novelist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his.
A teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. Surrounded by figures from…
With a New Introduction
Washington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal’s Narratives of Empire,his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating…
When Gore Vidal’s recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In…
Robert Holton has returned from Europe and settled into a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroker. He suppresses memories of nights of love in Florence as he tries…
Gore Vidal, winner of the National Book Award, once again proves himself a provocative contemporary American critic. In this far-ranging collection of essays, he brings his keen intellect to a…
The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called perpetual war for perpetual peace. The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military…
Gore Vidal’s only collection of short stories, first printed in 1956, demonstrates his ability to alternate and explore different literary styles.
This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal’s life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He describes his difficult family, talented friends and interesting…
Charlie is the bastard son of Aaron Burr; Emma is beautiful; and both think it is prudent to return from penury in Europe and secure a marriage for Emma. But…
Gore Vidal’s satirical fantasy, with a new introduction by the author. From his long-time hiding-place in provincial Egypt, Eugene Luther tells the story of John Cave, a former Californian undertaker…
The final volume in Vidal’s celebrated and bestselling series of American Chronicle novels is a unique pageant of the American experience from the U.S. entry in World War II to…
Essays question the consensus view of the causes behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, and examine the erosion of American…
In the long-awaited conclusion to his bestselling trilogy, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to…
Gore Vidal’s fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a…
A collection of essays taken from 40 years of the author’s work. It is divided into three sections: State of the Art , which covers literature; State of the Union…
Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America’s capital as the nation’s power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in…
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A novel about the art of writing itself.
Gore Vidal’s metaphysical thriller about an end-of-the- world cult.
Journey into the sophisticated, scandal-ridden cosmopolis of high society …
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, a TV crew will record the Crucifixion, live from Golgotha, in order to boost NBC in the ratings war. In this iconoclastic novel…
Young Clay Overbury, Senator Burden Day’s assistant, has both a modest background and immense ambitions. Enid Canford marries him, so providing the Sanford newspaper dynasty with a direct line to…
* A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and themselves. A great war novel and Vidal’s first!
A novel of intrigue set in central America.
From the author of MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DARK GREEN, BRIGHT RED, a novel, first published in 1949, describing the growing-up of a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when…
Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that…
