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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385524846
• ISBN13: 9780385524841
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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.