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The Luminous Years: Portraits at Mid-Century
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a great photographer, maybe not so known as he is worth to be; a good man, committed to culture and environment defense, friend to many of the most important characters of the last century culture and art, presents to us a lot of intense black & white portraits. A sharp introduction of Gore Vidal, a unique witness of our times, completes the high quali... »
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Messiah (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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This book was written in the early 1950's, and like any satire it takes its start-point from the world at its time of writing. Great satire, I am coming increasingly to realise, does not fade with the memory of its immediate context because it depicts things that are deep and nasty and recurrent. The tripartite first chapter of Vidal's Messiah sets his... »
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Myra Breckinridge and Myron
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After reading Myra Breckinridge I couldn't look at my passions with the same sort of satisfaction after being infused by Vidal's challenge to established normalcy. He doesn't waste any time introducing us to his philosophical, dedicated diary-writing main character Myra Breckinridge. Myra is a determined transsexual with an edge of deter... »
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Dark Green, Bright Red
The political writings of Gore Vidal are timeless.
Originally published in 1950, the novel is set in a mythical South American country that ... »
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Where Joy Resides
Christopher Isherwood's name and the breadth of his work is completely overshadowed by a musical adaptation of just one of his short stories. One of the ... »
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Armageddon Essays 1983 1987
Gore Vidal gives us superbly vitriolic portraits of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, as well as of the Christian Right's Armageddon: 'Why conserve anythin... »
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