Myra Breckinridge And Myron

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Everyone is talking about Myra Breckinridge - and everything you have heard about her is true

'I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess.'

So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she regards as the supreme achievements of Western culture; and a sacred mission to bring heteronormative civilization to its knees.

'Gore Vidal, a writer of lustrous and fabulously readable prose, was always ahead of his time, so it is wonderful to see some of his finest works being republished for an audience who will be ready to (re)discover his daring, his insight and his wickedly waspish wit' STEPHEN FRY

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Nothing in the versatile Vidal's past will quite prepare the reader for Myra Breckinridge * Time *
A masterpiece * The Listener *
Shocking some, tickling others, and outraging many * Newsweek *
A genuinely, brutally witty book, a parody on Hollywood, pop intellectualism, pornography and just about anything else you could name * New York Times *
Myra should be enjoyed as a romp, but the harsh accurate social satire but be digested * New Statesman *
After many readings, Myra Breckinridge continues to give wicked pleasure, and still seems to have fixed the limit beyond which the most advanced aesthetic neo-pornography ever can go -- Harold Bloom * New York Review of Books *
Has literary decency fallen so low * Time *
I consider Vidal to be a master of that new form which is taking shape in world literature and which we may call the hyper-novel or the novel elevated to the square or the cube * Italo Calvino *

Author Bio

Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.