Title: Gore Vidal
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, American Authors
People: Gore Vidal (1925-)