Background
Vidal, Gore was born on October 3, 1925 in West Point, New York, United States. Son of Eugene Luther Vidal and Nina S. Gore.
(Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Visi...)
Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Visit to a Small Planet Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Publication Date: 1958/01/01 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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(Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessaloni...)
Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus. Meanwhile, thanks to a breakthrough in computer software, an NBC crew is racing into the past to capture—live from the suburb of Golgotha—the Crucifixion, for a TV special guaranteed to boost the network's ratings in the fall sweeps. As a stream of visitors from twentieth-century America channel in to the first-century Holy Land—Mary Baker Eddy, Shirley MacLaine, Oral Roberts and family—Timothy struggles to complete his story. But is Timothy's text really Hacker-proof? And how will he deal with the truth about Jesus' eating disorder? Above all, will he get the anchor slot for the Big Show at Golgotha without representation by a major agency, like CAA 1,896 years in the future? Tune in.
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( Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowne...)
Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and commentator, Gore Vidal is less known for the exquisitely crafted short fiction he wrote as a young man. Like the work of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, his stories have been overshadowed by the author's triumphs writing in other genres. Still, Vidal's short fiction offers us a portrait of the young artist in the 1940s and 1950s. His subtle and comic tales often center on adolescence and homosexual themes. In Three Stratagems, a middle-aged gay man encounters a male prostitute while vacationing in Key West. In The Zenner Trophy, the star athlete at an elite boys school is expelled for sexual relations with a classmate. These stories were gathered along with five others into a 1956 volume, A Thirsty Evil, and for decades were thought to comprise Vidal's complete short fiction.
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( In Death Likes it Hot, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargeant ...)
In Death Likes it Hot, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargeant travels out to a posh beach community to help a wealthy socialite plan an end-of-summer party. His enjoyment of the sun, the surf, and the company of a lovely young fashion reporter is interrupted by the death of the socialite's niece: she mysteriously drowns while swimming on a crowded beach. No one suspects murder until the police find a lethal dose of sleeping pills in her system. As Sargeant watches the police's investigation unfold, he keeps an eye on the grieving socialite; the victim's famous painter husband; a suspiciously cheery brother and sister; and a garrulous tabloid columnist. Now, instead of planning guest lists, wine choices, and menus, Sargeant is faced with a killer unlike he's ever faced: highly sophisticated, devilishly clever, and just as smooth as he is.
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(In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where ...)
In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society where he has cut a wide swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and sometimes lost). From encounters with, amongst others, Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Francis Ford Coppola to the mournful passing of his longtime partner, Howard Auster, Vidal always steers his narrative with grace and flair. Entertaining, provocative, and often moving, Point to Point Navigation wonderfully captures the life of one of twentieth-century America’s most important writers.
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(Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the histor...)
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. And he is determined to tell his own story. As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young United States.
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( A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and th...)
A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and themselves, Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first novel, written at nineteen when he was first mate of the U.S. Army freight supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Here he writes of a ship caught plying the lethal, frigid Arctic waters during storm season. Tensions run high among the edgy crew and uneasy passengers even before the cruel wind that gives the book its title suddenly sweeps down from the mountains. Vividly drawn characters and a compelling murder plot combine to make Williwaw a classic war novel.
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(Washington's stady presence and regal confidence more tha...)
Washington's stady presence and regal confidence more than compensated for his poor performance in the field against British Generals, themselves every bit as striking in their mediocrity as he. Adams alone saw virtues in monarchy-not England's, but one of our own, with titles for the men of power. If Adams was the loftiest of the scholars at the Continetnal Congress of 1775, Thomas Jefferson was the most intricatae character, gifted as writer, architect, farmer-and, in a corrupt moment Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literatry and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. In Inventing a Nation, Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms and bedrooms, the convention halls, and the salons of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and other key figures who helped found the American Republic. Vidal's splendid and percipient prose animates key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation, and we come to know these men in ways we have not until now-their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life and illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they gave, and the institutions of government they fashioned. Above all, Inventing a Nation presents a powerful, compassionate immensly moving portrait of George Washington, whose reolution, integrity, and intelligence rescued the fledgling Republic many times in its early days.
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(Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, me...)
Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—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.
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(POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation ...)
POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. As he says, 'As I was writing this account of my life and times since PALIMPSEST, I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the Bering Sea that we had to navigate so often with a compass made inoperable by weather.' It is a beautifully apt analogy for the hazards (mostly) eluded during his eventful life. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society, where he has cut a broad swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and on a number of occasions lost). Among the gathering of notables to be found in these pages, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the book's most moving pages are devoted to the illness and death of his partner of five decades, Howard Austen, and indeed the book is, among other things, a meditation on mortality written in the spirit of Montaigne.
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( Six essays on the theme of empire and republic, with pa...)
Six essays on the theme of empire and republic, with particular focus on the national security state and the failure of the U.S. economic system./P>
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(POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation ...)
POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. As he says, 'As I was writing this account of my life and times since PALIMPSEST, I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the Bering Sea that we had to navigate so often with a compass made inoperable by weather.' It is a beautifully apt analogy for the hazards eluded (mostly) during his eventful life. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and on a number of occasions lost). Among the gathering of notables to be found in these pages, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the book's most moving pages are devoted to the illness and death of his partner of five decades, Howard Austen, and indeed the book is, among other things, a meditation on mortality, written in the spirit of Montaigne.
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( When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perp...)
When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America's current imperial ambitions to the experience of World War Two and the post-war Truman doctrine. And now, with the Cheney-Bush leading us into permanent war, Vidal asks whose interests are served by this doctrine of pre-emptive war? Was Afghanistan turned to rubble to avenge the 3,000 slaughtered on September 11? Or was "the unlovely Osama chosen on aesthetic grounds to be the frightening logo for our long contemplated invasion and conquest of Afghanistan?" After all he was abruptly replaced with Saddam Hussein once the Taliban were overthrown. And while "evidence" is now being invented to connect Saddam with 9/11, the current administration are not helped by "stories in the U.S. press about the vast oil wealth of Iraq which must- for the sake of the free world- be reassigned to U.S. consortiums."
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( Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American lite...)
Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. In Inventing a Nation, Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid and percipient prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. “Pure Vidal. . . . Inventing a Nation is his edgy tribute to the way we were before the fall.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Vidal offers details that enliven and . . . reflections on the past that point sharply to today.” —Richard Eder, New York Times “An engaging and . . . unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all.”—Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books “Vidal’s quick wit flickers over the canonical tale of our republic’s founding, turning it into a dark and deliciously nuanced comedy of men, manners, and ideas.”—Amanda Heller, Boston Sunday Globe “This entertaining and enlightening reappraisal of the Founders is a must for buffs of American civilization and its discontents.”—Booklist “Gore Vidal . . . still understands American history backwards and forwards as few writers ever have.”—David Kipen, National Public Radio
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(A complete and revised edition of the author's third nove...)
A complete and revised edition of the author's third novel, which shocked 50's American with its homosexual theme, in which the original ending has been restored, whilst a new preface by the author examines the cause and effect of a novel that is described as evocative today as it was originally.
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(From the author of MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DARK GREEN, BRIG...)
From the author of MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DARK GREEN, BRIGHT RED, a novel, first published in 1949, describing the growing-up of a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when he is young, and whose mother is portrayed as a 'monster'.
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( Set in post-war Europe, fresh-out-of-law-school Philip ...)
Set in post-war Europe, fresh-out-of-law-school Philip Warren takes a year to discover his future. In this classic coming-of-age story, Philip journeys through various affairs, misadventures, and cities full of unforgettable characters that prompt his self-discovery and lessons on taking pleasure in both love and life.
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(The Best Man crackles with the smart lines and situations...)
The Best Man crackles with the smart lines and situations inherent to the work of Gore Vidal. The political intrigues rampant in Vidals 1960 setting are strangly similar to the political intrigues of the present day. This darkly satirical drama finds two presidential contenders seeking the endorsement of an aging ex-president and explores how personal agendas can change the course of a nations destiny. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Terrence Currier, Johnny Holliday, Naomi Jacobson, Timmy Ray James, Michael Kramer, Marsha Mason, Paul Morella, Kevin Murray, Judy Simmons, Gary Sloan and Senator Fred Thompson.
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(This is February 18th, 1957 playbill from the Original Br...)
This is February 18th, 1957 playbill from the Original Broadway production of the GORE VIDAL comedy hit "VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET" which played the Booth Theatre in New York City. (The production opened February 7th, 1957 and ran for 388 performances.) This issue is dated March 18th 1957 - The play starred CYRIL RITCHARD (shown in the cover photo) and featured EDDIE MAYEHOFF, PHILIP COOLIDGE, SARAH MARSHALL, CONRAD JANIS, SIBYL BOWAN and FRANCIS BETHENCOURT ..... CREDITS: Book by GORE VIDAL; Sets designed by OLIVER SMITH; Costumes designed by PATRICIA ZIPPRODT; Production staged by CYRIL RITCHARD; Produced by GEORGE AXELROD and CLINTON WILDER ..... DETAILS: The 32 page playbill measures 6 1/2" X 9" inches and includes full production credits, cast list, synopsis of scenes and bios of each of the leading actors but with the exception of the front cover, no cast photos, but fabulous ads including Restaurants, Supper clubs, Fashion and the latest in Cars
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(In Death Before Bedtime, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent i...)
In Death Before Bedtime, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is invited to the home of a venerable senator to help strategize his imminent run for president. On the night before he’s to announce, though, the senator is murdered in his bed. No longer needed as a political publicist, Sargent finds himself helping the police find the killer. He deftly navigates an eccentric cast of characters, all of whom are suspects: the rebellious daughter; the sycophantic aide; the grieving widow; and the power-hungry governor with his eye on the senator’s job. Somehow, between charming the senator’s daughter and glad-handing Washington’s elite, Sargent still manages to methodically put the pieces into place and sees that politics truly is a cut-throat business.
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(For over twenty years, Gore Vidal has been one of America...)
For over twenty years, Gore Vidal has been one of America's most successful if unpredictable novelists. At the same time, as readers of the New York Review of Books, Esquire, The New Statesman know, he has been an outstanding literary social critic. His first collection of essays, Rocking the Boat, contained, according to Philip Rahv, "some of the most courageous, liveliest, and wittiest comment on literature, the theater and social life that has been written in America." Gore Vidal's second collection of essays has the same wide range as the first: pornography, the French "New Novel," the Kennedys, Tarzan, Nixon, the future of liberalism and the nature of conservatism, Once again, in these essays, "Gore Vidal brings," as Norman Mailer once wrote, "a brave and cultivated wit to the pomades of the national suet."
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(From the poignant realisation as an adult of the cruel br...)
From the poignant realisation as an adult of the cruel brutality of childhood in 'The Robin', man then comes face to face with himself as a boy in 'A Moment of Green Laurel': both stories combining the nostalgia and fear that haunt us all in old age. Meanwhile, in 'Erlinda and Mr Coffin', Southern etiquette is unashamedly turned upside down in a tale of amateur theatricals reminiscent of Dickens and Victorian melodrama. Yet it is in 'Three Stratagems', 'The Zenner Trophy', 'Pages from an Abandoned Journal' and 'The Ladies in the Library' (with more than a hint of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice in the latter) that we see Vidal as we know him best: cynical and provocative in these subtle tales of what was known in those days as 'sexual inversion'.
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(The first paperback edition to combine Gore Vidal's brill...)
The first paperback edition to combine Gore Vidal's brilliant and energetic fantasy Myra Breckinridge with its sequel, Myron. "A moral masterpiece."--The Times (London) 10,000 print.
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(The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman ...)
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshipping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.
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(The story as told by the New York News, is an imaginative...)
The story as told by the New York News, is an imaginative affair in which an alien comes from another planet to do a bit of sightseeing and to see or start a war. He thinks he has arrived just in time for the Civil War, which he expects will be jolly, but he has misjudged his landing and gets here in 1957. He tries to make the best of it. He plops himself in an average community, and decides to start a Civil War.
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( Gore Vidal has been described as the last ‘noble defend...)
Gore Vidal has been described as the last ‘noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America—those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blue—by demonstrating that those whose protest arbitrary and secret government, those who defend the bill of rights, those who seek to restrain America's international power, are the true patriots. "Those Americans who refuse to plunge blindly into the maelstrom of European and Asiatic politics are not defeatist or neurotic," he writes. "They are giving evidence of sanity, not cowardice, of adult thinking as distinguished from infantilism. They intend to preserve and defend the Republic. America is not to be Rome or Britain. It is to be America."
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(ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, EGYPT IS A TINDERBOX. WILL ONE...)
ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, EGYPT IS A TINDERBOX. WILL ONE AMERICAN LIGHT THE SPARK THAT SETS IT ABLAZE? Gore Vidal was one of America’s greatest and most controversial writers. The author of twenty-three novels, five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays, he received the National Book Award in 1993. In 1953, Vidal had already begun writing the works that would launch him to the top ranks of American authors and intellectuals. But in the wake of criticism for the scandalous content of his third novel, The City and the Pillar, Vidal turned to writing crime fiction under pseudonyms: three books as “Edgar Box” and one as “Cameron Kay.” The Edgar Box novels were subsequently republished under his real name. The Cameron Kay never was. Lost for more than 60 years and overflowing with political and sexual intrigue, Thieves Fall Out provides a delicious glimpse into the mind of Gore Vidal in his formative years. By turns mischievous and deadly serious, Vidal tells the story of a man caught up in events bigger than he is, a down-on-his-luck American hired to smuggle an ancient relic out of Cairo at a time when revolution is brewing and heads are about to roll. One part Casablanca and one part torn-from-the-headlines tabloid reportage, this novel also offers a startling glimpse of Egypt in turmoil -- written over half a century ago, but as current as the news streaming from the streets of Cairo today.
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(When Gore Vidal's frank description of homosexual life, T...)
When Gore Vidal's frank description of homosexual life, The City and the Pillar, was first published in 1948, the reaction was both unexpected and shocking. Republished now in hardcover with a new introduction by the author, this classic is being featured with seven of Vidal's early stories.
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(Gore Vidal saw his first talking picture in 1929 when he ...)
Gore Vidal saw his first talking picture in 1929 when he was four years old. In Screening History, Vidal intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington, D.C., boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics. At times poignant, often bitingly funny, this is Gore Vidal at his best.
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( The lost pulp crime novel by great American novelist Go...)
The lost pulp crime novel by great American novelist Gore Vidal! Hired to smuggle an ancient artefact out of Egypt, Pete Wells finds himself the target of killers and femme fatales - and just one step away from triggering a revolution that will set Cairo aflame!
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(A literary cause célèbre when first published more than f...)
A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels is his unique bond with Bob and with his persistent attraction to other men. Upon finally encountering Bob years later, the force of his hopes for a life together leads to a devastating climax. The first novel of its kind to appear on the American literary landscape, The City and the Pillar remains a forthright and uncompromising portrayal of sexual relationships between men.
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(Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy...)
Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door-, is haunted by the memory of a romanctic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses himself, his progresss through the secret gay world of 1940's America unveils surreptitious Hollywood affairs, the hidden life of the military in the Second World War and the underworld bar culture of New York City. With the publication of his daring thrid novel The City and the Pillar in 1948, Gore Vidal shocked the American public, which has just begun to hail him as their newest and brightest young writer. It remains not only an authentic and profoundly importatnt social document but also a serious exploration of the nature of idealistic love.
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(By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, c...)
By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, clubs and the brittle, played-out demi-monde ...by day a wasteland of hollow men, lonely apartments and empty morning coffee stands ...Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business. The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city. And when Carla turns up unexpectedly from his more passionate past, Robert finds he must choose between the fixed path of money-making and dull conventionality and the fraught, uncertain path of love and freedom.
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Vidal, Gore was born on October 3, 1925 in West Point, New York, United States. Son of Eugene Luther Vidal and Nina S. Gore.
Graduate, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1943. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Brown University, 1988.
Visit to a Small Planet 1956, The Best Manitoba 1960, Romulus 1962, Weekend 1968, An Evening with Richard Nixon 1972; Travel: Vidal in Venice 1986. Film scripts and adaptations: Wedding Breakfast, I Accuse, Ben Hur, Suddenly Last Summer, The Best Manitoba, Caligula, Dress Gray 1986, Billy the Kid 1989; Essays: Rocking the Boat 1963, Reflections upon a Sinking Ship 1969, Homage to Daniel Shays 1972, Matters of Fact and Fiction: Essays 76, 1977, The Second American Revolution 1982, Armageddon? 1987, At Home: Essays 1982-1988 1988; writes thrillers under pseudonym Edgar Box; criticism in Partisan Review-, The Nation, New York Review of Books, Esquire, et ceteraServed in United States Army 46. Edgar Allen Poe; President Kennedy’s Advisory Council on the Arts 63. Company-Chairman People"s Party 1970-1972.
Honorary Citizen, Ravello, Italy.
(A complete and revised edition of the author's third nove...)
( Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American lite...)
( The lost pulp crime novel by great American novelist Go...)
(From the author of MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DARK GREEN, BRIG...)
(From the poignant realisation as an adult of the cruel br...)
("Death in the fifth position, in which Peter Sargeant, ha...)
( Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowne...)
(When network executives travel back in time in order to b...)
(In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where ...)
(The fast and furious hedonistic world of the jet-set comm...)
(Washington's stady presence and regal confidence more tha...)
(The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman ...)
(From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton ...)
(When a mortician appears on television to declare that de...)
( When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perp...)
( It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously su...)
(This is February 18th, 1957 playbill from the Original Br...)
(A literary cause célèbre when first published more than f...)
(Kidnapped and held to ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria a...)
(The story as told by the New York News, is an imaginative...)
(Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, me...)
( A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and th...)
(When Gore Vidal's frank description of homosexual life, T...)
(Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy...)
(A boat of the Army Transportation Corps fights through th...)
(Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the histor...)
(POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation ...)
(POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation ...)
( Six essays on the theme of empire and republic, with pa...)
(The first paperback edition to combine Gore Vidal's brill...)
(It is a risky (and risque) business becoming 'Woman Trium...)
(Famous author, Gore Vidal writes a novel of a police woma...)
(Gore Vidal's unique view on pornography, Tarzan, liberali...)
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(By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, c...)
(By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, c...)
(Gore Vidal's story of someone who takes control of their ...)
( Set in post-war Europe, fresh-out-of-law-school Philip ...)
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( Gore Vidal has been described as the last ‘noble defend...)
(Gore Vidal novel Palimpsest A Memoir published by Random ...)
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(Second American Revolution And Other Essays, The: 1976-19...)
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(Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is a...)
(A novel based around Central American politics, first pub...)
(Gore Vidal's metaphysical thriller about an end-of-the- w...)
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(Matters Of Fact And Of Fiction: Essays 1973-1976, by Vida...)
(1962, First Edition, Hardcover with dust jacket, 300 pages)
(Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. First Ed...)
(The sequel to the bestseller"Myra Breckinridge.")
(ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, EGYPT IS A TINDERBOX. WILL ONE...)
(Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Visi...)
(NY 1972 1st 2nd printing (2 on number line. 8vo., 157pp.,...)
(In Death in the Fifth Position, dashing P.R. man Peter Sa...)
(A novel about the art of writing itself.)
(Wesport Country Playhouse 1958 Program)
(In Death Before Bedtime, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent i...)
( In Death Likes it Hot, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargeant ...)
(Gore Vidal's first novel.)
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(German Language Edition.)
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(Julian, by Vidal, Gore)
(Memoir by Gore Vidal)
(Signet Books, 1960. Paperback. Teleplay, first televised ...)
(Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessaloni...)
(1 HARDCOVER BOOK)
(Reprint)
(Fine. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Si...)
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Honorary president American Humanist Association, 2009. Advisory board member World Can't Wait organization. Democratic-Liberal candidate for United States Congress, 1960.
Co-chairman The People's Party, 1970—1971. Candidate for Democratic nomination California, 1982.