The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/16/2009
ISBN: 9780307388681
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.28w x 1.05d