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Like New: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
Title
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Lif...
ISBN
1408704633
EAN
9781408704639
Type
Hardback
Binding
Hardback
Date of Publication
2015-08-27
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Release Title
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Lif...
Artist
Parini, Jay
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An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes behind the glittering surface of Vidal's colourful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well - a virtual Who's Who of the American Century, from Eleanor Roosevelt on down. The life of Gore Vidal was an amazingly full one; a life of colourful incident, famous people and lasting achievements that calls out for careful evocation and examination. Through Jay Parini's eyes and words comes an accessible, entertaining story that puts the life and times of one of the great American figures of the post-war era into context, that introduces the author to a generation who didn't know him before and looks behind-the-scenes at the man and his work in frank ways never possible before his death. Parini, provided with unique access to Vidal's life and his papers, excavates buried skeletons, but never loses sight of his deep respect for Vidal and his astounding gifts.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-13
9781408704639
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214606123

Product Key Features

Publication Year
2015
Book Title
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something inside Me Dies: the Life of Gore Vidal
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Author
Jay Parini
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
169 mm
Item Weight
830 g
Item Width
243 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
Jay Parini

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