03335cam a2200457 a 4500 67690 20230410132637.0 080326s2008 nyu b 000 0 eng 2008013517 (OCoLC)ocn178282729 DLC DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP JTE C#P BWX CDX IXA VVC CQU EDK 9780385524841 0385524846 NZ1 12232241 AU@ 000042915952 (OCoLC)178282729 PS 3543 V648s 2008 814/.54 GRAL Vidal, Gore, 1925- Essays. Selections The selected essays of Gore Vidal / by Gore Vidal ; edited by Jay Parini. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2008. xvii, 458 p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Introduction / Jay Parini -- Part 1: Reading The Writers -- Novelists and critics of the 1940s (1953) -- Tarzan revisited (1963) -- Top ten best-sellers according to the Sunday New York Times as of January 7, 1973 (1973) -- French letters: theories of the new novel (1967) -- American plastic: the matter of fiction (1974) -- Calvino's novels (1974) -- Hacks of academe (1976) -- Some memories of the glorious bird and an earlier self (1976) -- Edmund Wilson: this critic and this gin and these shoes (1980) -- William Dean Howells (1983) -- Dawn Powell: the American writer (1987) -- Montaigne (1992) -- Rabbit's own burrow (1996) -- Part 2: Reading The World -- Passage to Egypt (1963) -- Pornography (1966) -- Holy family (1967) -- Homage to Daniel Shays (1972) -- Pink triangle and yellow star (1981) -- Theodore Roosevelt: an American sissy (1981) -- Second American Revolution (1981) -- National security state (1988) -- Monotheism and its discontents (1992) -- Black Tuesday (2002) -- State of the union (2004). From the Publisher: Gore Vidal-novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialists-is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature. American essays. Parini, Jay. Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/2008013517-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/2008013517-d.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2008013517-t.html Blackwell Book Service BBUS R7717693 $27.50 Coutts Information Services COUT 6699196 Baker & Taylor BKTY 27.50 20.63 0385524846 0007478910 active YBP Library Services YANK 2800714 Baker and Taylor BTCP BK0007478910 lcc bk C0 DRFGD 85205 85205 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PS 3543 V648s 2008 00000062468 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk