Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

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Selected Essays of Gore Vidal is written by Gore Vidal and published by Vintage. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0307388689 (ISBN 10) and 9780307388681 (ISBN 13).

Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature.