Creation - Softcover

Vidal, Gore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345340205 ISBN 13: 9780345340207

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1993

Synopsis

Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war, philosophy, and adventure . . .
"There isn't a page of CREATION that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight."
-- John Leonard, The New York Times

About this title

Review:

"An incredibly detailed and convincing picture of the ancient world." -Anthony Burgess

"Brilliantly realized. . . . Fertile, vivid, and ingenious. . . . [A] surging river of a book." -Mary Renault, The New York Review of Books

"His best novel. . . . There isn't a page of Creation that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight" -The New York Times

"Highly literate, stylish, entertaining and provocative." -The Wall Street Journal

About the Author:

Gore Vidal is the author, most recently of The Last Empire, a collection of essays from 1992-2000 and The Golden Age, a novel that concludes his seven-volume series of narratives of the American Empire. He divides his time between Ravello, Italy, and Los Angeles.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0345340205
• ISBN 13: 9780345340207
• Binding: Paperback