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This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He describes his difficult family, talented friends and interesting enemies with a cast that includes Tennessee Williams, the Kennedys, Jack Kerouac and Norman Mailer.

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The lost pulp crime novel by great American novelist Gore Vidal! Hired to smuggle an ancient artefact out of Egypt, Pete Wells finds himself the target of killers and femme fatales and just one step away from triggering a revolution that will set Cairo aflame!

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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. Includes a new Preface by the author.

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A novel of intrigue set in central America.

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Gore Vidal is the most elegant, erudite and eclectic writer of his generation' - Roy Hattersley, Guardian

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Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, a TV crew will record the Crucifixion, live from Golgotha, in order to boost NBC in the ratings war. In this iconoclastic novel, Vidal japes at the expense of religion, history and taste, mixing Hollywood tough talk with biblical jargon and camp.

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In this sequel to PALIMPSEST, the celebrated novelist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his.

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From the author of MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DARK GREEN, BRIGHT RED, a novel, first published in 1949, describing the growing-up of a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when he is young, and whose mother is portrayed as a 'monster'.

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* A new, accessible selection of brilliant and essential reading from one of America's modern masters

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The very best of Gore Vidal's fiction and non-fiction including correspondence with Jackie Kennedy. This collection (the only single volume that includes Vidal's fiction and his essays) contains two complete works - MYRA BRECKINRIDGE, his most famous novel, and THE BEST MAN, a play about the American presidency.

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The final volume in Vidal's celebrated and bestselling series of "American Chronicle" novels is a unique pageant of the American experience from the U.S. entry in World War II to the end of the Korean War. A "New York Times" Notable Book.

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Journey into the sophisticated, scandal-ridden cosmopolis of high society ...

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Gore Vidal's collection of essays include comments on the state of American politics, and there are two essays on the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh - who entered into a correspondence with Vidal when he was in gaol - and on the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

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Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that somehow, he is expected... An old man, Bentsen, shows him around, and T. realises that all is not as it seems.

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*Vidal's acclaimed memoir in the form of a novel

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* A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and themselves. A great war novel and Vidal's first!

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Hired to smuggle an ancient artefact out of Egypt, Pete Wells finds himself the target of killers and femme fatales - and just one step away from triggering a revolution that will set Cairo aflame.

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"First published in the United States by OR Books, New York 2012"--T.p. verso.

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Gore Vidal's two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Myra Breckinridge arrives in Hollywood intending to prove that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies - and survive. And in "Myron" she returns to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego.

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In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy and Jim spends years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the opportunity occurs, it explodes with violence and pain. This was one of the first pieces of explicitly gay fiction.

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Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters.

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Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.

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Gore Vidal's satirical fantasy, with a new introduction by the author. From his long-time hiding-place in provincial Egypt, Eugene Luther tells the story of John Cave, a former Californian undertaker, his rise to power and the subsequent global impact of his new religion.