Gore Vidal: A Biography - Rilegato

Kaplan, Fred

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ISBN 10: 0385477031 ISBN 13: 9780385477031

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1999

Riassunto

A compelling new biography of one of America's most enigmatic writers recalls a controversial life lived in the literary arts, and on the cusp of social acceptability, as an outspoken novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic, satirist, actor, homosexual, and a vocal critic of American foreign and domestic policy. 30,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Fascinating--. Vidal's life is so full of incident and celebrity, so much at the center of power and glamour, Kaplan's book is a pageant of entertaining stories."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Kaplan must be commended...a splendid job."--San Francisco Chronicle

"An invaluable font of research."--The Washington Post
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the critically acclaimed author of the biographies Henry James, Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the editor of The Essential Gore Vidal. Kaplan has held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, received a Queens College Presidential Award, and been a Fellow of the National Humanities Center. He is currently at work on a biography of Mark Twain. Kaplan lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385477031
• ISBN 13: 9780385477031
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 850