Gore Vidal
By: Robert F. Kiernan.
Series: Modern literature series
Publisher: F. Ungar Pub. Co.
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Vidal, Gore, 1925-  -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: A critical survey of Vidal's work, treating all of the novels, the short stories and plays as well. Vidal's greatness, says the author, lies in his talent for the small-scale: for the anecdote, the scene, the sentence, all created to the counterpoint of the risque and the elegant. A revealing biographical sketch is followed by an analysis of the Vidalian style, and then by an overall reassessment of the early successes and the later works.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 153-156.
Includes index.