The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
by Vidal, Gore
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- ISBN 13
- 9780385524841
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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. Jay Parini (born 1948) is an American writer and academic. Among his works of fiction and criticism are The Last Station , John Steinbeck , and Benjamin's Crossing . Parini is Gore Vidal's literary executor and a regular contributor to various journals and newspapers, including The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Guardian (U.K.). In 1976, he cofounded New England Review , and he has taught at Middlebury College since 1982. He lives in Vermont.
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- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GRP88134553
- Title
- The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385524846
- ISBN 13
- 9780385524841
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- June 17, 2008
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