Palimpsest: A Memoir

This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal's compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author's celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters—including the Kennedy family, Marlon Brando, Anais Nin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

VIDAL,GORE

Humor & Entertainment

Penguin Group USA

Myra's personality is altered by her sex change operation and Myron is transported back through time to the year 1948

Myra Breckinridge/Myron (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin Classics

Bestselling author Gore Vidal joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. To satisfy a public that longs for a savior, Vidal's eponymous hero of KALKI, born and bred in America's Midwest, establishes himself in Nepal, puts out the word that he is the last incarnation of the god Vishnu, and predicts an imminent apocalypse meant to cleanse the planet.

Kalki (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

United States

When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult.

Messiah (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Humor

Penguin Publishing Group

A satiric look at the state of the union centers on a relocated Duluth and its assorted politicians, policemen and women, terrestrial and extraterrestrial aliens, Hispanics, feminists, mobsters, and other minorities

Duluth (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. The boy turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs in the time continuum. As he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer, he catches a glimpse of the coming war and becomes determined to ward off the cataclysm. In a race against time-and surrounded by figures from American history past and present, including Albert Einstein, Grover Cleveland, and Abraham Lincoln-he battles to save not just himself, but humanity. Gore Vidal has written some of the finest and most inventive novels in modern times. Readers of such bestsellers as Burr, Lincoln, Duluth, and 1876 will revel in this, his latest foray into the American scene. A brilliant and vividly imaginative tale about some of the key events of the twentieth century, The Smithsonian Institution is a dramatic masterwork of com

The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel

Mariner Books

vg book in good slightly cut down dw 1st Anthony Blond 1st print 1968 edition hardcover book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Myra Breckinridge

Contemporary

Little,Brown

A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and themselves, Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first novel, written at nineteen when he was first mate of the U.S. Army freight supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Here he writes of a ship caught plying the lethal, frigid Arctic waters during storm season. Tensions run high among the edgy crew and uneasy passengers even before the cruel wind that gives the book its title suddenly sweeps down from the mountains. Vividly drawn characters and a compelling murder plot combine to make Williwaw a classic war novel.

Williwaw: A Novel

Genre Fiction

University of Chicago Press

Vidal, Gore. Armageddon ? - Essays 1983-1987. London, Andre Deutsch, 1987. Octavo. VIII, 244 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Frederic Prokosch: The European Connection / Tennessee Williams: Someone to Laugh at the Squares with / Richard Nixon: Not The Best Man's Best Man / Vidalgate: by Andrew Kopkind / etc.

Armageddon Essays 1983 1987

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

The controversial American novelist's futuristic story of a race against time to prevent The Hacker from destroying all the tapes describing the mission of Jesus Christ and His Gospel, and other dark forces from stopping the live televised recording of the Crucifixion from Golgotha. Follows HOLLYWOOD.

Live From Golgotha

Humor & Satire

Carlton Books, Limited

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