Gore Vidal: Palimpsest: A Memoir, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Palimpsest: A Memoir
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- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group, 10/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780349147154
- Item number:
- 12157183
- Volume:
- 496 Pages
- Weight:
- 388 g
- Format:
- 198 x 126 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 2.10.2025
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Blurb
Palimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist, dramatist, critic, political activist and candidate, screenwriter, television commentator, controversialist, and a man who knew pretty much everybody worth knowing (from Amelia Earhart to Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duke and the Duchess of Windsor, Jack Kennedy, Jaqueline Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Andre Gide, and Tennessee Williams, and on and on).
Here, recalled with the charm and razor wit of one of the great raconteurs of our time, are his birth into a DC political clan; his school days; his service in World War II; his emergence as a literary wunderkind in New York; his time in Hollywood, London, Paris and Rome; his campaign for Congress (outpolling JFK in his district); and his legendary feuds with, among many others, Truman Capote and William F. Buckley.
At the emotional heart of this book is his evocation of his first and greatest love, boyhood friend Jimmy Trimble, killed in battle on Iwo Jima.
Biography
Gore Vidal, geboren 1925, zählt zu den wichtigsten Vertretern der amerikanischen Literatur. Er ist Autor von 22 Romanen, fünf Theaterstücken, vielen Filmdrehbüchern, Kurzgeschichten und über 200 Essays. Für "United States: Essays 1952 - 1992", eine Sammlung seiner Kritiken, erhielt er den National Book Award. Seine Memoiren "Palimpsest" (1996) sind ein bedeutendes Zeitdokument. Der Autor lebte in Ravello und Los Angeles.§Gore Vidal ist am 31. Juli 2012 im Alter von 86 Jahren in Los Angeles gestorben.
