Selected Essays

Abacus, London, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 456 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; United States; 20th century; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780349120454. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10216. . 9780349120454