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050			_aPS 3543.I26 _b.V667 2008
100			_aVidal, Gore, _d-1925 _9107675
245		4	_aThe selected essays of Gore Vidal / _cby Gore Vidal ; edited by Jay Parini.
260			_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _cc2008.
300			_axvii, 458 p. _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aGore Vidalnovelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialistis 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 forays into criticism, reviewing, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. Among them are such classics as "The Top Ten Best-Sellers," "Dawn Powell: The American Writer," "Theodore Roosevelt: An American Sissy," "Pornography," and "The Second American Revolution." Edited and introduced by Gore Vidal's literary executor, Jay Parini, 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 (www.powells.com).
700			_aParini, Jay. _971368
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