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**'There is no one quite like him, and if you do not know his work you should' Erica Wagner, THE TIMES **'Gore Vidal is the most elegant, erudite and eclectic writer of his generation' Roy Hattersley, GUARDIAN **'A figure whose vibrant verbal presence has itself been an essential of part of American cultural life for the past fifty-odd years' Sylvia Brownrigg, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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'Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often courageous - and outrageous! - forthrightness, Vidal explores his keystone subjects: primarily the worlds of literature and US politics; but also showbiz, sexuality and modern manners. His gaze ranges from the fiction of Calvino and Updike to the politics of pornography to the Clinton and Bush administrations, America post-September 11 and contemporary imperial ambitions. These essays are a witty and brilliant assessment of our times from the most memorable of American literary masters.
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**'There is no one quite like him, and if you do not know his work you should' Erica Wagner, THE TIMES **'Gore Vidal is the most elegant, erudite and eclectic writer of his generation' Roy Hattersley, GUARDIAN **'A figure whose vibrant verbal presence has itself been an essential of part of American cultural life for the past fifty-odd years' Sylvia Brownrigg, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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'Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often courageous - and outrageous! - forthrightness, Vidal explores his keystone subjects: primarily the worlds of literature and US politics; but also showbiz, sexuality and modern manners. His gaze ranges from the fiction of Calvino and Updike to the politics of pornography to the Clinton and Bush administrations, America post-September 11 and contemporary imperial ambitions. These essays are a witty and brilliant assessment of our times from the most memorable of American literary masters.
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