Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
9780810950498

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Gore Vidal is a literary legend, raconteur and controversialist This book presents never-before-seen images of political and cultural icons from Vidal’s personal collection, including the Kennedys, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, Mick Jagger and many more This book reaches deep into Vidal's considerable archive and includes personal correspondence with celebrities, party lists and hate mail, jackets from rare first and foreign editions, campaign materials from his forays into politics and draft manuscript pages of his most famous works


Hardback
276 x 216 mm
272 Pages
200
9780810950498
Abrams - Australian Distributed
Published: Fri 27, Nov, 2009
Price (AUD) $69.95
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Item Description
My Life in Pictures is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his remarkable life. In this book of never-before-seen photographs, letters, manuscripts and other material from Vidal’s vast personal archives, readers are escorted by one of America's wittiest insiders into the Kennedys’ backyard, onto the set of Ben Hur and into the private lives of Truman Capote, Amelia Earhart and Anais Nin, to name just a few. Here Vidal looks back on his days as an Army officer in WWII, his rise as a groundbreaking and controversial novelist, his years in Hollywood, his forays into the political arena and his notoriously public triumphs and feuds. Written with Vidal's legendary wit and literary elegance, this book reveals not only the personal reflections of one of the last of the great generation of American writers, but also a captivating social history of the twentieth century told by one of our great raconteurs

About the Author

Gore Vidal is the author of 25 novels, well over 200 essays, six plays and not-even-he-knows-how-many television and movie scripts.