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1876 by Gore Vidal
16.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Chronicle
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experienc ...Show more
Burr by Gore Vidal
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Narratives of Empire
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American hist ...Show more
Burr by Gore Vidal
16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Chronicle
For readers who can't get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal's stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel--and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the m ...Show more
Empire - a novel by Gore Vidal
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Chronicle / Narratives of Empire
"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." --"The New York Times Book Review" In this extraordinarily powerful ...Show more
Hollywood by Gore Vidal
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Category: Fiction | Series: American Chronicle
"Wicked and provocative...Vidal's purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating." --"Chicago Tribune" In his brilliant and dazzling new novel, Gore Vidal sweeps us into one of the most fascinating periods of American political and social change. The time is 1917. In Washington, President ...Show more
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Narratives of Empire | Reading Level: good
In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through fou ...Show more
Myra Breckinridge & Myron by Gore Vidal
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is a risky (and risque) business becoming 'Woman Triumphant' - exercising total power over men like Rusty Godowski. Rusty just wants to be a Hollywood star like everyone else at Buck Loner's academy, but now that Buck's niece, Myra Breckinridge, has arrived, the curriculum is taking a wildly strange ...Show more
Palimpsest by Gore Vidal
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Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's 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 ...Show more
Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
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Category: Biography & Memoir
This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal's compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author's celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters ...Show more
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006 by Gore Vidal
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling "Palimpsest" left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas ...Show more
The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
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Category: Fiction
A literary cause c l bre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in "awful ...Show more
The Golden Age: A Novel by Gore Vidal
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic wi ...Show more