Description: Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidals life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He describes his difficult family, talented friends and interesting enemies with a cast that includes Tennessee Williams, the Kennedys, Jack Kerouac and Norman Mailer. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidals life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T.P. Gore, and in the various domestic situations of his complicated and exasperating mother, Nina.Then come schooldays at St Albans and Exeter; the army; life as a literary wunderkind in New York, London, Rome and Paris in the 40s and 50s; sex in an age of promiscuity; and a campaign for Congress in 1960.His cast includes Tennessee Williams, the Kennedys, Eleanor Roosevelt, Truman Capote, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Christopher Isherwood, Jack Kerouac, Jane and Paul Bowles, Santayana, Anais Nin, Norman Mailer, Leonard Bernstein and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among others. Notes B format (with jacket) edition of Gore Vidals memoirs of the first forty years of his life. Since his first book Williwaw, which he wrote in 1946 while in the army, Gore Vidal has written over twenty novels and nine collections of essays. Palimpsest is written from the vantage point of the library in his villa on the Italian coast. There he recollects his family, friends and enemies in a cast that includes Tennessee Williams, the Kennedys, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Author Biography Gore Vidal was the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, numerous screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and the critically lauded PALIMPSEST: A MEMOIR. Review An engrossing and beguiling read. Admirably candid, refreshingly indiscreet, intelligent and full of wit, it is also startlingly original... an unequivocal triumph. - William Boyd, DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEARHe does not narrate his life: he revives it. The result is something quite novel and wonderfully appealing, a critical biography of himself...Vidals life might even be his greatest work. - INDEPENDENTWonderfully entertaining. You want the high-level political gossip? You get it here... it offers all the zing of a Dry Martini without the danger of getting drunk. - DAILY TELEGRAPHPALIMPSEST is a tremendous read, down and dirty from start to finish. It is also a proud and serious and truthful book... - SUNDAY TIMES Kirkus UK Review Anyone interested in gossip - about literary figures (Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, the Sitwells), film people (Garbo, Brando, Charlton Heston), royalty or demi-royalty (Princess Margaret, the Queen, Princess Grace), American politicians (the Roosevelts) - will be fascinated by this book. Vidal himself is also a fascinating figure, excruciatingly frank - about his sexuality, for instance. A wonderful picture of American high life between 1945 and the mid-60s. (Kirkus UK) Long Description This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidals life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T.P. Gore, and in the various domestic situations of his complicated and exasperating mother, Nina.Then come schooldays at St Albans and Exeter; the army; life as a literary wunderkind in New York, London, Rome and Paris in the 40s and 50s; sex in an age of promiscuity; and a campaign for Congress in 1960.His cast includes Tennessee Williams, the Kennedys, Eleanor Roosevelt, Truman Capote, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Christopher Isherwood, Jack Kerouac, Jane and Paul Bowles, Santayana, Anais Nin, Norman Mailer, Leonard Bernstein and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among others. Review Quote Wonderfully entertaining. You want the high-level political gossip? You get it here... it offers all the zing of a Dry Martini without the danger of getting drunk. Details ISBN0349108005 Author Gore Vidal Pages 448 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Year 1996 ISBN-10 0349108005 ISBN-13 9780349108001 Format Paperback Publication Date 1996-08-01 Imprint Abacus Subtitle A Memoir Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Illustrations 16pp b&w illustrations Birth 1925 Media Book Language English Short Title Palimpsest UK Release Date 1996-08-01 Audience General NZ Release Date 1996-09-26 AU Release Date 1996-09-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:3496542;
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Book Title: Palimpsest: a Memoir
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Author: Gore Vidal
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Language: English
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Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Year: 1996
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Item Weight: 324g
Number of Pages: 448 Pages