Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir

Vidal, Gore

ISBN 10: 0316027278 / ISBN 13: 9780316027274

Edité par Little Brown, 2006

A propos de cet article

1st edition hardback, 2006. Original pictorial dustjacket near fine. Black cloth as new. Pages a little dusty at the top edge, internally very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 277 pages. Pictorial endpapers.

N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1645607991619

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir
• Éditeur: Little Brown
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0316027278
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780316027274
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine

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Synopsis

POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. As he says, 'As I was writing this account of my life and times since PALIMPSEST, I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the Bering Sea that we had to navigate so often with a compass made inoperable by weather.' It is a beautifully apt analogy for the hazards (mostly) eluded during his eventful life. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society, where he has cut a broad swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and on a number of occasions lost). Among the gathering of notables to be found in these pages, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the book's most moving pages are devoted to the illness and death of his partner of five decades, Howard Austen, and indeed the book is, among other things, a meditation on mortality written in the spirit of Montaigne.

À propos de l?auteur

Gore Vidal is the author of 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers.