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Point to Point Navigation : A Memoir by Gore Vidal (2006, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-100385517211
ISBN-139780385517218
eBay Product ID (ePID)52748474
Product Key Features
Book TitlePoint to Point Navigation : a Memoir
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year2006
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorGore Vidal
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight19.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-011644
Reviews"Unmissable. . . . Wry. . . . [Vidal's] wit remains by far this book's most alluring attribute." --Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" "Engaging. . . . "Point to Point Navigation" is a stirring political protest, a meditation on the fleeting nature of memory, and, quite movingly, an elegiac rumination on loss." --"Vogue" "Touchingly elegiac. . . . Even mortality and aging seem somehow less formidable in the company of such a witty, penetrating-and unfailingly nervy intelligence." --Francine Prose, "O, The Oprah Magazine" "From the Trade Paperback edition.", "Unmissable. . . . Wry. . . . [Vidal's] wit remains by far this book's most alluring attribute." -Janet Maslin,The New York Times "Engaging. . . .Point to Point Navigationis a stirring political protest, a meditation on the fleeting nature of memory, and, quite movingly, an elegiac rumination on loss." -Vogue "Touchingly elegiac. . . . Even mortality and aging seem somehow less formidable in the company of such a witty, penetratingand unfailingly nervy intelligence." -Francine Prose,O, The Oprah Magazine From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal818.5409 B
SynopsisIn the brilliant sequel to his acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest," the celebrated novelist, essayist, and critic ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his., The brilliant sequel to Gore Vidal's acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest," In "Point to Point Navigation," the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. The title refers to a form of navigation he 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 and for the way this memoir proceeds--far from linear but always on course. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater, 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, sketched with a draftsman's ease and evoked with the panache of one of our great raconteurs, are Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams (the "Glorious Bird"), Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Greta Garbo, Federico Fellini, Rudolph Nureyev, Elia Kazan, 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. Elegiac yet vital and even ornery, "Point to Point Navigation" is a summing-up of Gore Vidal's time on the planet that manages to be at once supremely entertaining, endlessly provocative, and thoroughly moving., The brilliant sequel to Gore Vidal's acclaimed, bestselling memoir,Palimpsest. InPoint to Point Navigation, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. The title refers to a form of navigation he 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 sincePalimpsest, 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 and for the way this memoir proceeds-far from linear but always on course. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater, 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, sketched with a draftsman's ease and evoked with the panache of one of our great raconteurs, are Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams (the "Glorious Bird"), Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Greta Garbo, Federico Fellini, Rudolph Nureyev, Elia Kazan, 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. Elegiac yet vital and even ornery,Point to Point Navigationis a summing-up of Gore Vidal's time on the planet that manages to be at once supremely entertaining, endlessly provocative, and thoroughly moving.
LC Classification NumberPS3543.I26Z475 2006
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