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Myra Breckinridge/Myron
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| Title | Myra Breckinridge/Myron |
| ASIN | 0141180285 - Support The Site - Purchase This Book |
| Category | Fiction |
| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Modified | Craverguy - March 17, 2009 03:18pm |
| Description | No one remains untouched by the luscious Myra Breckinridge's quest for Hollywood fame. Her job teaching Empathy and Posture at the Academy of Drama and Modeling gives her the perfect opportunity to vamp, scheme, and seduce her way into the undiscovered lives and passions of others -- while trying to keep a few secrets of her own. In the sequel, Myron, the Breckinridge saga takes an increasingly bizarre turn. Myron seems to be an inconspicuous man with a sweet wife and a Chinese catering business, and Myra -- still determined to be a megastar -- wages an outrageous battle for hormonal supremacy over the body she shares with Myron. Gore Vidal leads us through the movie star world of the fabulous forties as Myra attempts to alter cinema history.
When Myra Breckinridge first appeared in print in 1968, critics were baffled, delighted, and appalled by this extraordinary comedy of sex change. Time magazine was prompted to query: "Has literary decency fallen so low?" Now readers may well ask, Has literature ever been so witty, so provoking, so intriguing? Thirty years later, Myra has become literature's most famous transsexual -- after all, this is his/her/their age. |
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