Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare - Couverture rigide

Vidal, Gore

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ISBN 10 : 0810950499 ISBN 13 : 9780810950498

Editeur : Harry N. Abrams, 2009

Synopsis

This book is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his remarkable and famously well-lived life. In this collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other selections from Vidal's vast personal archives, readers are now escorted by one of America's wittiest insiders into the Kennedys' Camelot, as well as onto the set of Ben Hur, and into the private lives of Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, and Tennessee Williams, to name just a few.Born into public life, here Vidal looks back on his days as an Army officer in WWII, his rise as a groundbreaking and controversial novelist, his years in Hollywood, his forays into the political arena, and his notoriously public triumphs and feuds. Written with Vidal's legendary wit and literary elegance, this book reveals not only the personal reflections of one of the last of the great generation of American writers, but also a captivating social history of the 20th century told by one of our great raconteurs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gore Vidal is the author of 25 novels, well over 200 essays, six plays and not-even-he-knows-how-many television and movie scripts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harry N. Abrams
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810950499
• ISBN 13: 9780810950498
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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