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The selected essays of Gore Vidal
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- Creator
- Gore Vidal ; edited by Jay Parini
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- First Vintage International edition
- New York : Vintage International, 2009
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 458 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780307388681, 0307388689
- OCLC
- ocn401667977
- Includes bibliographical references.
- pt. 1. Reading the writers. Novelist and critics of the 1940s (1953) -- Tarzan revisitied (1963) -- The top ten best-sellers according to the New York Times as of January 7, 1973 (1973) -- French novels : theories of the new novel (1967) -- American plastic : the matter of fiction (1974) -- Calvino's novels The hacks of Academe (1976) -- Some memories of the Glorious Bird and an earlier self (1980) -- Edmund Wilson : this critic and this gin and these shoes William Dean Howells (1983) -- Dawn Powell : the American writer (1987) -- Montaigne (1992) -- Rabbit's own burrow (1996). pt. 2. Reading the world. Passage to Egypt Pornography (1966) -- The Holy Family Homage to Daniel Shays (1972) -- Pink triangle and yellow star (1981) -- Theodore Roosevelt : an American sissy The second American Revolution The National Security State (1988) -- Monotheism and its discontents Black Tuesday (2002) -- State of the Union, 2004