The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Contributors: Jay Parini (Editor)
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: June 17, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780385524841
Subjects: Essays; Political Science / Essays; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations
Description: From the Publisher: Gore Vidal-novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialists-is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature.