Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies
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Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies by Jay Parini
The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's foremost thinkers and writers.
He has painted a portrait that is by turns shocking, witty and very funny - just like the much-missed man himself * Evening Standard *
Writer, pundit, bon viveur, frequenter of chat-show couches, Vidal will be remembered by his contemporaries, Parini is sure, "as a meteor who streaked through the night skies, with a fantail of sparks"He is less certain about future generations. "Will they read him? It's impossible to know." With this fine biography, he has done his part in ensuring they will * Independent *
a marvellous new biography . . . a portrait that is both affectionate and balanced * The Economist *
As much an intimate memoir as a scholarly biography -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
Riveting * Herald *
In a good year for biography, the life I enjoyed the most, a gossipy window on a great American, is Jay Parini's life of Gore Vidal, Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies -- Robert McCrum * Observer *
This biography, filled with glittering names and acerbic wit, faithfully evokes the dangerous charm whose chilly dazzle even his melancholy last years could not quite extinguish * Daily Mail *
Writer, pundit, bon viveur, frequenter of chat-show couches, Vidal will be remembered by his contemporaries, Parini is sure, "as a meteor who streaked through the night skies, with a fantail of sparks"He is less certain about future generations. "Will they read him? It's impossible to know." With this fine biography, he has done his part in ensuring they will * Independent *
a marvellous new biography . . . a portrait that is both affectionate and balanced * The Economist *
As much an intimate memoir as a scholarly biography -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
Riveting * Herald *
In a good year for biography, the life I enjoyed the most, a gossipy window on a great American, is Jay Parini's life of Gore Vidal, Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies -- Robert McCrum * Observer *
This biography, filled with glittering names and acerbic wit, faithfully evokes the dangerous charm whose chilly dazzle even his melancholy last years could not quite extinguish * Daily Mail *
Jay Parini is a Professor of English at Middlebury College and is the author of the novels , The Last Station (adapted as an Academy Award-nominated film and translated into more than thirty languages) and Benjamin's Crossing. He has written biographies of Robert Frost, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349139401 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349139407 |
| Title | Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies |
| Author | Jay Parini |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2016-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
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