Palimpsest: A Memoir - Hardcover

Vidal, Gore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679440380 ISBN 13: 9780679440383

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Covers Gore Vidal's life from his birth in 1925 West Point through his Washington boyhood, military career, homosexual life in the 1940s and 1950s, early television achievements, literary endeavors, and complicated family life. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

An engrossing and beguiling read. Admirably candid, refreshingly indiscreet, intelligent and full of wit, it is also startlingly original...And unequivocal triumph. (William Boyd, DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR)

He does not narrate his life: he revies it. The result is something quite novel and wonderfully appealing, a critical biography of himself...Vidal's life might even be his greatest work. (INDEPENDENT)

Wonderfully entertaining. You want the high-level political gossip? You get it here... it offers all the zing of a Dry Martini without the danger of getting drunk. (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

PALIMPSEST is a tremendous read, down and dirty from start to finish. It is also a proud and serious and truthful book... (SUNDAY TIMES)

About the Author:

Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679440380
• ISBN 13: 9780679440383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 435
• Editor: Delano Sharon