Myra Breckinridge
by Gore Vidal
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States
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About This Item
The edges of the text block are foxed and soiled. The top corner of the FFEP is creased. Pencil marks have been erased from the secon free endpapers. The text is clean and unmarked.
Synopsis
Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary. It was made into a movie in 1970. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s," the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant sexual practices, as filtered through an aggressively camp sensibility.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hastings of Coral Springs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21273
- Title
- Myra Breckinridge
- Author
- Gore Vidal
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Covered Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1968
- Pages
- 264
- Size
- 8.25"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hastings of Coral Springs
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Altamonte Springs, Florida
About Hastings of Coral Springs
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.