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  The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (Vintage International (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Gore Vidal, Edited by Professor Jay Parini

  

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  Short Description for The Selected Essays of Gore VidalGore 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, politi...
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA
  • Published: 01 June 2009
  • Format: Paperback 458 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Political Science & Theory
  • ISBN 13: 9780307388681 ISBN 10: 0307388689
  • Sales rank: 249,167

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Full description for The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

• 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.