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Greenwood, Date: 1997-02-28. Hardcover. Good. 1997. Greenwood ISBN 0313295794 9780313295799 [US]

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ISBN10: 0313295794, ISBN13: 9780313295799, [publisher: Greenwood, Westport, CT] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. Fine, with no dust jacket as issued.
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PenGUIN Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). FIRST. INSCRIBED To Gore Vidal Amicably Jorge Semprun. A fine first in paperback. STAMPED FROM THE LIBRARY OF GORE VIDAL.. PenGUIN ISBN 0313295794 9780313295799 [US]

New. Gore Vidal has been entertaining, and occasionally outraging, the American public for fifty years. In the course of his long career, Vidal has set new intellectual and artistic standards for American historical fiction and has also established himself in the first rank of contemporary social satirists. This is the first full-length study to include Vidal's most recent novels and the first designed to meet the needs of the general reader as well as students of contemporary literature. It includes discussions of Lincoln, Empire, Hollywood, and Live from Golgotha, as well as his earlier novels. Baker and Gibson show that while Vidal's novels are tremendously entertaining, they are also serious examinations of a recurring theme-the decline of the West in general and the decline of the United States in particular. A biographical sketch of the writer precedes a general discussion of Vidal's early novels. Each of the following chapters examines an individual novel, from Julian (1964) to Live from Golgotha (1992), with special emphasis on artistic development and historical and intellectual context. To help the reader understand the recurring themes in Vidal's fiction, Baker and Gibson group the novels by type. First are the historical fictions, those of the ancient world (Julian, Creation), and the American Chronicles, Vidal's family saga of the United States over the course of its history. Second are the social satires, what Vidal calls his ...

Greenwood Press, Date: 1997. Hardcover. New. 215 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. 1997. Greenwood Press ISBN 0313295794 9780313295799 [GB]