Burr - Brossura

Vidal, Gore

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0345339215 ISBN 13: 9780345339218

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 1989

Riassunto

The contemporary novelist uses a fictional memoir to illuminate Aaron Burr's life and times

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Recensione:

"Dazzling. . . . Burr is wicked entertainment of a very high order."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A tragedy, a comedy, a vibrant, leg-kicking life. . . . All of this and much, much more is told in a highly engaging book that teems with bon mots, aphorisms and ironic comments on the political process. . . . Enlightening, fresh and fun."  --The Boston Globe

"A novel of Stendhalian proportions. . . . It is probably impossible to be an American and not be fascinated and impressed by Vidal's telescoping of our early history. . . . Always absorbing." --The New Yorker
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

raordinarily intelligent and entertaining novel!"
NEWSWEEK
Brilliantly realized, enormously readable, Gore Vidal's #1 best seller paints a fascinating portrait of Aaron Burr, who lived out his long life partly as a suspected traitor and partly as one of the most heroic and colorful of the founding fathers.
A fictional memoir based on actual facts, BURR describes the early struggles and endless intrigues of the United States. Vidal writes with so much drama and vigor that history comes alive, and the concerns of a new nation read like today's headlines.

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• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0345339215
• ISBN 13: 9780345339218
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile