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Two Score of Gore
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Sep 27, 2009 05:24pm |
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| Category | Review |
| Author | R.W.B. Lewis |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Sunday, June 20, 1993 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | This gigantic volume brings together essays and articles written by Gore Vidal over 40 years, interspersed as it were between his novel writing (23 novels to date, including the acclaimed fictional biography of America: Lincoln, 1876, Empire and so on), playwriting ("Visit to a Small Planet" and "The Best Man") and sundry television and screenwriting chores. As an older colleague once said to me about a wondrously energetic younger man, "He writes faster than I can read." United States: Essays 1952-1992 divides into three parts, or "states" -- literature, the public world, the personal life -- and there are 114 pieces in all, some of them full-scale appraisals, always beautifully informed, of the author or topic in question. The book's title suggests Mr. Vidal's hope that united they may all stand. They mostly will, especially as animated by Mr. Vidal's sweeping, grasping prose style, with its mix of the elegant and the wittily vernacular. |
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