A Thirsty Evil - Softcover

Vidal, Gore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349106568 ISBN 13: 9780349106564

Verlag: Abacus, 2009

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Falling somewhere between the realms of Henry Adams and all of Monty Python, Gore Vidal has for many years served as America's own Tiresias - a seer and a scourge as well as an entertainer of the highest order (JAY McINERNEY)

Vidal's combination of learning, wit and disdain gets into your blood. He can change the way you think - the only definition of a great writer which makes sense (OBSERVER)

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From the poignant realisation as an adult of the cruel brutality of childhood in 'The Robin', man then comes face to face with himself as a boy in 'A Moment of Green Laurel': both stories combining the nostalgia and fear that haunt us all in old age. Meanwhile, in 'Erlinda and Mr Coffin', Southern etiquette is unashamedly turned upside down in a tale of amateur theatricals reminiscent of Dickens and Victorian melodrama.

Yet it is in 'Three Stratagems', 'The Zenner Trophy', 'Pages from an Abandoned Journal' and 'The Ladies in the Library' (with more than a hint of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice in the latter) that we see Vidal as we know him best: cynical and provocative in these subtle tales of what was known in those days as 'sexual inversion'.

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• Verlag: Abacus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0349106568
• ISBN 13: 9780349106564
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112