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Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare by Gore Vidal (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAbrams, Inc.
ISBN-100810950499
ISBN-139780810950498
eBay Product ID (ePID)72739868
Product Key Features
Book TitleGore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicGeneral, Literary, American / General, Subjects & Themes / Celebrity
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Photography, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorGore Vidal
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight47 Oz
Item Length11.2 in
Item Width9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-018741
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromEighth Grade
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal818.5409 B
SynopsisThis 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3543.I26Z47 2009
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