The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

By Gore Vidal

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307388689
• ISBN13: 9780307388681
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Vintage Vidal

Vidal is an American treasure and a patriot in the best sense of the word.

Vidal over the years

As may be expected somewhat uneven essays by Gore spanning decades . He is always entertaining and frequently quite erudite but he is much too harsh on John Updike and the Kennedys. Here's hoping he lives on for many more years and books.