Gore Vidal's America

by Dennis Altman

Book Overview

Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have impacted on major political and social debates for fifty years. He is both a serious writer and a television and movie celebrity, whose increasingly acerbic picture of the United States guarantees he is both revered and reviled.


Gore Vidal's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745633633
• ISBN13: 9780745633633
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

les faiblesses de M. Vidal

this book in revealing the weaknesses of Vudal also points to the strengths, and Altman becomes himself an important author, like Edmund White writing on Genet. To be read

great intro to contemporary US!!!

I don't much like Gore Vidal, but when I ppicked up this book Altman converted me: he makes Vidal seem far more interesting, important and lively than the old cumudgeon we see on television. A wonderful introduction to the US of the twentieth cnetury!!!--and quite witty to read