Duluth by Gore Vidal

Duluth by Gore Vidal

When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in 'Duluth', the popular television series and the one called Beryl finds herself in a 'Hyatt Regency' romantic novel entitled ROGUE DUKE. In Duluth they do it all with word processors. Meanwhile Lieutenant Darlene Ecks, strip-search enthusiast, terrorizes a barrio full of illegal Mexican immigrants until they rise up in defiance, the mayor plumbs the mysteries of a bright red spaceship and a life and death contest is waged between Duluth's leading socialite and its foremost author to complete contradictory biographies of Betty Grable. Gore Vidal's wicked extravaganza sports special effects not expected in a novel; and it poses taunting puzzles like who is the guy they call The Dude? And why is it said, 'Every society gets the Duluth it deserves'?

Falling somewhere between the realms of Henry Adams and all of Monty Python, Gore Vidal has for many years served as America's own Tiresias * Jay McInerney *
Absolutely unique. . Vidal is a master * Italo Calvino *
One of the most brilliant, most radical and most subversive pieces of writing to emerge from America in recent years * New Statesman *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780349103624
ISBN 10	0349103623
Title	Duluth
Author	Gore Vidal
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	1993-04-22
Number of pages	320
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