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Vidal, Gore:Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006
- ejemplar autografiado 2006, ISBN: 9780385517218
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New York, NY: Doubleday, 2006. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. [12], 277, [1] p. Illust… Más…
New York, NY: Doubleday, 2006. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. [12], 277, [1] p. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Index. Signed by author. Signed on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling. From Wikipedia: "Gore Vidal (b. Eugene Louis Vidal; 3 October 1925 31 July 2012) was an American writer and a public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing. He was a Democratic Party politician who twice sought elected office; first to the United States House of Representatives (New York State, 1960), then to the U.S. Senate (California, 1982). As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal s principal subject was the history of the United States and its society. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal s topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other public intellectuals and writers, occasionally became continual quarrels. As a novelist Gore Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life; the polished, erudite style of narration readily evokes the time and place of the story, and perceptively delineates the psychology of the characters." Derived from a Kirkus review: This is a successor volume to his memoir, Palimpsest (1995). In contrast to earlier reminiscences, "melancholy baggage" weighs more heavily on him here-declining health and departed friends. Moving from his villa in Ravello, Italy, to the Hollywood Hills, Vidal starts this year-long chronicle on New Year's Eve 2004. Death-Iraq casualties, disaster victims in New Orleans, the exits of Saul Bellow, Johnny Carson and Pope John Paul II-provokes a flood of memories and fulminations. Like an ancient Roman patrician, he awaits his turn to shuffle off this mortal coil. Sensing that time is no longer on his side, Vidal celebrates friends, criticizes enemies and bemoans the end of "our old original Republic." Vidal can produce memorable portraits. Vidal's memories from encounters in DC, New York, Hollywood and elsewhere remain intact, the wit affecting., Doubleday, 2006, 3<
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Gore Vidal:Point to Point Navigation : A Memoir by Gore Vidal
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The brilliant sequel to Gore Vidal's acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest." In "Point to Point Navigation," the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vida… Más…
The brilliant sequel to Gore Vidal's acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest." In "Point to Point Navigation," the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. The title refers to a form of navigation he resorted to as a first mate in the Navy during World War II. As he says, "As I was writing this account of my life and times since "Palimpsest," I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the Bering Sea that we had to navigate so often with a compass made inoperable by weather." It is a beautifully apt analogy for the hazards (mostly) eluded during his eventful life and for the way this memoir proceeds--far from linear but always on course. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater, politics and international society where he has cut a broad swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and on a number of occasions lost). Among the gathering of notables to be found in these pages, sketched with a draftsman's ease and evoked with the panache of one of our great raconteurs, are Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams (the "Glorious Bird"), Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Greta Garbo, Federico Fellini, Rudolph Nureyev, Elia Kazan, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the book's most moving pages are devoted to the illness and death of his partner of five decades, Howard Austen, and indeed the book is, among other things, a meditation on mortality written in the spirit of Montaigne. Elegiac yet vital and even ornery, "Point to Point Navigation" is a summing-up of Gore Vidal's time on the planet that manages to be at once supremely entertaining, endlessly provocative, and thoroughly moving. Media > Book, [PU: Doubleday]<
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Vidal, Gore:Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition (… Más…
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition (First Printing, with full number line) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean pale gray boards with black cloth spine, bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean decorated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs. 277 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The brilliant sequel to Gore Vidal's acclaimed, bestselling memoir, Palimpsest.., Doubleday, 2006, 5<
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Vidal, Gore:Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir : 1964 to 2006
- Pasta blanda 2006, ISBN: 9780385517218
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