Creation: A Novel - Brossura

Vidal, Gore

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375727051 ISBN 13: 9780375727054

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2002

Riassunto

Cyrus Spitama, the aged Persian ambassador to Athens, recounts his official and personal journeys throughout the world of the fifth century B.C. and his encounters with the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and other great men of an extraordinary century, in a restored edition of the acclaimed historical novel, featuring material from the author's original manuscript. Simultaneous. 15,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“An incredibly detailed and convincing picture of the ancient world.” –Anthony Burgess

“Brilliantly realized. . . . Fertile, vivid, and ingenious. . . . [A] surging river of a book.” –Mary Renault, The New York Review of Books

“His best novel. . . . There isn’t a page of Creation that doesn’t inform and very few pages that do not delight” –The New York Times

“Highly literate, stylish, entertaining and provocative.” –The Wall Street Journal

L'autore:

Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375727051
• ISBN 13: 9780375727054
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 592