Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
This book is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his remarkable and famously well-lived life. In this collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other selections from Vidal's vast personal archives, readers are now escorted by one of America's wittiest insiders into the Kennedys' Camelot, as well as onto the set of Ben Hur, and into the private lives of Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, and Tennessee Williams, to name just a few.Born into public life, here Vidal looks back on his days as an Army officer in WWII, his rise as a groundbreaking and controversial novelist, his years in Hollywood, his forays into the political arena, and his notoriously public triumphs and feuds. Written with Vidal's legendary wit and literary elegance, this book reveals not only the personal reflections of one of the last of the great generation of American writers, but also a captivating social history of the 20th century told by one of our great raconteurs.
Gore Vidal is the author of 25 novels, well over 200 essays, six plays and not-even-he-knows-how-many television and movie scripts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780810950498 |
| ISBN 10 | 0810950499 |
| Title | Gore Vidal |
| Author | Gore Vidal |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Abrams |
| Year published | 2009-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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