POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION Gore Vidal 1st edition, SIGNED

Gore Vidal

ISBN 10: 0316027278 / ISBN 13: 9780316027274

Published by Doubleday, 2006

About this Item

1st printing. Signed on title page [not tipped in]. -- Gore Vidal's Fabulous Life, Part 2, wherein Mr. Vidal reflects on his time on the planet. Elegiac and ornery, POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION manages to be at once supremely entertaining, endlessly provocative and occasionally annoying - but we enjoy it when he's being annoying, don't we? -- CONDITION: Near-unread copy in Fine/As New condition in a Fine DJ w/ archival cover. 288 pages including index. Copious photos, many from Mr. Vidal's personal collection. First edition, first printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION Gore Vidal 1st edition, SIGNED
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316027278
• ISBN 13: 9780316027274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 2.25 pounds
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. As he says, 'As I was writing this account of my life and times since PALIMPSEST, I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the Bering Sea that we had to navigate so often with a compass made inoperable by weather.' It is a beautifully apt analogy for the hazards (mostly) eluded during his eventful life. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society, where he has cut a broad swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and on a number of occasions lost). Among the gathering of notables to be found in these pages, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the book's most moving pages are devoted to the illness and death of his partner of five decades, Howard Austen, and indeed the book is, among other things, a meditation on mortality written in the spirit of Montaigne.

About the Author

Gore Vidal is the author of 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers.