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Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal / Jay Parini.
BIOGRAPHY: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT. An intimate, authorized yet totally frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925-2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self digs behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful career to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truths underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well-a virtual Who's Who of the twentieth century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Johnny Carson, Leonard Bernstein, and the creme de la creme of Hollywood. Also a generous helping of feuds with the likes of William F. Buckley, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and The New York Times, among other adversaries.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345805836
- ISBN: 0345805836
- Physical Description: xii, 464 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Anchor books edition.
- Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012. Authors, American. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Biography. Biographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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| Burlington Public Library | BIO VIDAL Parini 2016 | 39851001377697 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |