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Selected as an outstanding book by University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries A Los Angeles Times Book Review Bestseller A New York Times bestseller One of the master stylists of American literature, Gore Vidal now provides us with his uniquely irreverent take on America's founding fathers, bringing them to life at key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. "Pure Vidal. . . . Inventing a Nation is his edgy tribute to the way we were before the fall."—Los Angeles Times Book Review "[Vidal offers] details that enliven and . . . reflections on the past that point sharply to today." —Richard Eder, New York Times "An engaging [and] . . . unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all."—Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books "[Vidal's] quick wit flickers over the canonical tale of our republic's founding, turning it into a dark and deliciously nuanced comedy of men, manners, and ideas."—Amanda Heller, Boston Sunday Globe "This entertaining and enlightening reappraisal of the Founders is a must for buffs of American civilization and its discontents."—Booklist "Gore Vidal . . . still understands American history backwards and forwards as few writers ever have."—David Kipen, National Public Radio Gore Vidal, novelist, essayist, and playwright, is one of America's great men of letters. Among his many books are United States: Essays 1951-1991 (winner of the National Book Award), Burr: A Novel, Lincoln, and the recent Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace.

In this sequel to PALIMPSEST, the celebrated novelist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal 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. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, 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, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, 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.

No el amor tempestuoso sino la amistad fiel y valerosa es el tema de esta entrañable evocación de una leyenda del siglo XIII: Blondel busca denodadamente a su amigo, el rey Ricardo, secuestrado por e

Nadie puede permanecer ajeno a deliciosa carrera de Myra Breckinridge en pos de la fama. Su trabajo como profesora de Empatía y Expresión corporal en la Academia de Teatro y de Modelos de Hollywood, le ofrece la oportunidad perfecta para vampirizar, intrigar y seducir en su afición por desvelar las pasiones ocultas de los otros, mientras intenta preservar sus secretos. Cuando en 1968 se publicó Myra Breckinridge, los críticos quedaron desconcertados, encantados y espantados a un tiempo por esta extraordinaria novela sobre el cambio de sexo. La revista Time se precipitó a dudar si la literatura debía caer tan bajo. Ahora los lectores de Vidal se preguntan si alguna vez la literatura fue tan ingeniosa y provocadora. Casi cuarenta años después, Myra se ha convertido en el transexual más famoso de la literatura universal. Después de todo, ésta es su --de él, de ella-, nuestra era.

Salvaje, imaginativa y aguda crítica del modo de vida americano. El célebre Vidal crea una madeja de historias y personajes, cada uno de ellos transgresor e inaudito. Desde la maternidad a la television, todos los mitos de una sociedad puesta del reves en esta corrosiva novela.

Julian the Apostate, who tried to replace Christianity with tolerance for all religions, particularly the Hellenistic ones, is the subject of this work of historical fiction by Gore Vidal. Accompanied by the notes of Priscus of Athens and Libanius of Antioch, two elderly scholars, the book consists of the main narrative coupled with the humor and backbiting gossip that has made Vidal's style so distinctive--and that serves to make this novel realistic and accessible. This was Vidal's first historical novel, a form that served him well throughout his long career.

First published in 1948, Gore Vidal's THE CITY AND THE PILLAR was one of the first novels depicting positive gay subject matter to reach a mainstream audience. Structured around a love affair, Vidal's novel depicts one man's experiences in the gay scenes of California and New York; the central relationship was based on his own boyhood love for his best friend, who was killed in World War II and to whom Vidal dedicated THE CITY AND THE PILLAR. Because of its homosexual themes, the book alienated critics, and Vidal found his writing career problematic for several years thereafter.

The saga of the Sanfords is fleshed out by this prequel to HOLLYWOOD and WASHINGTON, DC. Caroline is set up to marry Del Hay, Secretary of State John Hay's son. Rather than confine herself to a stultified domestic life, Caroline chooses to publish a newspaper and must deal with William Randoph Hearst and his protege, her half-brother Blaise. Other real-life characters include Henry Adams, Henry James, plus assorted Astors, Vanderbilts, and Whitneys.

Caroline Sanford, half-sister of the newspaper tycoon Blaise Sanford from WASHINGTON, D. C., and a newspaper publisher herself, is transformed into actress Emma Traxler in the early days of the motion picture industry, just before the US entry into World War I. In his deliciously catty, unfailingly witty HOLLYWOOD, Vidal chronicles the rise of the industry and the rest of the country's conflicted feelings about it, peopling his story with characters like William Randolph Hearst, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Woodrow Wilson, the Roosevelts, the rascally Warren G. Harding, and Vidal's own grandfather, Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma.

Gore Vidal's WASHINGTON, D.C.--the final installment in the Narratives of Empire series--takes place between the years 1937 and 1953. His hero, young Peter Sanford, comes from a political family not unlike Vidal's; Sanford shares the story with Senator James Burden Day, who resembles Vidal's grandfather, Senator T.P. Gore of Oklahoma. While the novel is primarily about the dark side of American politics, it is also Vidal's first exploration in print of his feelings for his schoolboy crush, a boy named Jimmie who was killed at Iwo Jima in World War II. As always, Vidal casts a sharp eye on the strengths and weaknesses (most entertainingly, at the latter) of his characters, and of the American political system itself.

Gore Vidal, winner of the National Book Award, once again proves himself a provocative contemporary American critic. In this far-ranging collection of essays, he brings his keen intellect to a wide range of subjects--from profiles of Clare Boothe Luce and Charles Lindbergh, to provocative analyses of literary icons John Updike and Mark Twain.

Disset anys després de la mort de l'emperador romà del segle IV, Julià l'Apòstata, dos dels seus contemporanis es disposen a recuperar els diaria personals de l'emperador per escriure una crònica del seu regnat. Els dos escrivents adopten una actitud

La edad de oro es el final de la magnífica serie de novelas históricas o historias novelizadas".