{"product_id":"the-selected-essays-of-gore-vidal-9780307388681","title":"The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal","description":"Gore Vidal--novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist--is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16152984\"\u003eGore Vidal\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.28w x 1.05d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307388681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0307388689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO010000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL032000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004020\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGore Vidal \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, \u003cb\u003eWilliwaw\u003c\/b\u003e, written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.\u003cb\u003eJay Parini \u003c\/b\u003e(born 1948) is an American writer and academic. Among his works of fiction and criticism are \u003cb\u003eThe Last Station\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e John Steinbeck\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eBenjamin's Crossing\u003c\/b\u003e. Parini is Gore Vidal's literary executor and a regular contributor to various journals and newspapers, including \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (U.K.). In 1976, he cofounded \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has taught at Middlebury College since 1982. He lives in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44540798992621,"sku":"9780307388681","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_f70f279f-e8c2-42c8-b710-74c76207d1b0.jpg?v=1747491056","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/the-selected-essays-of-gore-vidal-9780307388681","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}