Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920's - Softcover

Vidal, Gore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345370139 ISBN 13: 9780345370136

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1991

Synopsis

Follows the career of Caroline Sanford, a brilliant and beautiful newspaper publisher who leaves Washington to become a Hollywood producer and movie star

About this title

Review:

"Wicked and provocative. . . . Vidal's purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating."
--Tom Tryon
"Vidal succeeds in making his history alive and plausible."
--The New York Times

"Vidal's originality derives from his as-
surance that he can create and command the American history of his novels, as much as he can their imaginary components. No other American writer I know of has Vidal's sense of national proprietorship. He summons the entire American scene into his confident voice. Vidal's presump-
tions work marvelously well for his
intentions."
--Richard Poirier,
The New York Review of Books

Also available from the Modern Library:
Burr, Lincoln, 1876,
Empire, Washington, D.C."

" Wicked and provocative. . . . Vidal's purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating."
--Tom Tryon

" Vidal succeeds in making his history alive and plausible."
--The New York Times

" Vidal's originality derives from his as-
surance that he can create and command the American history of his novels, as much as he can their imaginary components. No other American writer I know of has Vidal's sense of national proprietorship. He summons the entire American scene into his confident voice. Vidal's presump-
tions work marvelously well for his
intentions."
--Richard Poirier,
The New York Review of Books

Also available from the Modern Library:
Burr, Lincoln, 1876,
Empire, Washington, D.C.

Book Description:

* The fifth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0345370139
• ISBN 13: 9780345370136
• Binding: Paperback