Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 - Hardcover

Vidal, Gore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023398156X ISBN 13: 9780233981567

Publisher: Deutsch, 1987

Synopsis

Vidal, Gore. Armageddon ? - Essays 1983-1987. London, Andre Deutsch, 1987. Octavo. VIII, 244 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Frederic Prokosch: The European Connection / Tennessee Williams: Someone to Laugh at the Squares with / Richard Nixon: Not The Best Man's Best Man / Vidalgate: by Andrew Kopkind / etc.

About this title

Synopsis:

This collection of essays examines the leaders and lunacies of contemporary America, from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan. Vidal sees as most dangerous of all the "born-again Christians" who see the world in terms of a final cosmic cataclysm, after which only the elect will survive. Vidal is not just a political polemicist and the collection also contains reminiscences of his patrician childhood, appreciations of other writers such as Tennessee Williams, Frederic Prokosch, Paul Bowles, Anthony Burgess and Italo Calvino from the present day and past writers such as Henry James, William Dean Howells and Logan Pearsall Smith. Gore Vidal is author of 20 novels including "Williwaw", a volume of short stories and several collections of essays which include "Pink Triangle, Yellow Star".

About this edition

• Publisher: Deutsch
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 023398156X
• ISBN 13: 9780233981567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256