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Empire of Self : A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini (2015, HC), Signed 1st
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subject
- Biography & Autobiography
- Special Attributes
- Signed
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN
- 9780385537568
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385537565
ISBN-13
9780385537568
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208636359
Product Key Features
Book Title
Empire of Self : Alife of Gore Vidal
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Rich & Famous, Literary, Lgbt
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
30.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-004719
Reviews
Advance praise for Empire of Self : "Jay Parini's book about Gore Vidal is a winner. He has done the impossible--written about a monster of egotism with incredible empathy. His deep knowledge of Vidal makes this book a masterpiece of biography. He has combined the personal with the public in a unique way. Empire of Self is full of life and humor." --Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying and Fear of Dying (forthcoming) "Gore Vidal was a giant on the American scene, in the American century, equally at home with Hollywood and Broadway stars, Washington politicians, famous writers and European aristocrats. He was a great wit as well. In a miraculous way, Jay Parini has conjured this splendid, amusing, inexplicable life, creating a book that has everything: sex and humor, American history, even wisdom. One of the finest biographies of recent years." --Gay Talese "Jay Parini has written a clear-eyed, level, captivating, and brilliantly-paced biography of the liveliest and most ferocious American writer of the last century, the King of Zing, Gore Vidal. Thought to have secured the 'life rights' to his own story by many gambits in memoir, Vidal registers as a bolder provocateur in life, art, and politics than even he realized. This brisk and vital account convinces that Vidal has not diminished with time; it's our pages that got small." --Brad Gooch, author of Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor and City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara "The veteran biographer Jay Parini has earned the right to call his latest subject by his first name; he followed on the trail of this large American presence for thirty years. The result is an intimate portrait of a vivid, brilliant, famously irascible figure who knew everyone and wrote everything--from novels to movie scripts to essays and plays--in his astonishingly prolific career. Written with élan and confident erudition, Empire of Self is one of the most engaging biographies of our time." --James Atlas, author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of An American Poet and Bellow: A Biography
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Synopsis
An intimate, authorized yet totally frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925-2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self digs behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful career to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truths underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well--a virtual Who's Who of the twentieth century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Johnny Carson, Leonard Bernstein, and the creme de la creme of Hollywood. Also a generous helping of feuds with the likes of William F. Buckley, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and The New York Times , among other adversaries. The life of Gore Vidal teemed with notable incidents, famous people, and lasting achievements that call out for careful evocation and examination. Jay Parini crafts Vidal's life into an accessible, entertaining story that puts the experience of one of the great American figures of the postwar era into context, introduces the author and his works to a generation who may not know him, and looks behind the scenes at the man and his work in ways never possible before his death. Provided with unique access to Vidal's life and his papers, Parini excavates many buried skeletons yet never loses sight of his deep respect for Vidal and his astounding gifts. This is the biography Gore Vidal--novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, historian, wit, provocateur, and pioneer of gay rights--has long needed., An intimate, authorized yet totally frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925-2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self digs behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful career to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truths underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well--a virtual Who's Who of the twentieth century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Johnny Carson, Leonard Bernstein, and the crme de la crme of Hollywood. Also a generous helping of feuds with the likes of William F. Buckley, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and The New York Times , among other adversaries. The life of Gore Vidal teemed with notable incidents, famous people, and lasting achievements that call out for careful evocation and examination. Jay Parini crafts Vidal's life into an accessible, entertaining story that puts the experience of one of the great American figures of the postwar era into context, introduces the author and his works to a generation who may not know him, and looks behind the scenes at the man and his work in ways never possible before his death. Provided with unique access to Vidal's life and his papers, Parini excavates many buried skeletons yet never loses sight of his deep respect for Vidal and his astounding gifts. This is the biography Gore Vidal--novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, historian, wit, provocateur, and pioneer of gay rights--has long needed.
LC Classification Number
PS3543.I26Z85 2015
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