America's Gore Vidal.(Gore Vidal's America)(Book review)

From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Gore Vidal's America

by Dennis Altman

Polity Press (Cambridge, UK)

216 pages, $19.95

IT IS HARD TO KNOW what history will make of Gore Vidal. At eighty, he has had a career perhaps more varied than any other living American writer. His feuds with Norman Mailer in the 1950's and 60's seem as quaint today as having only three TV channels. Yet Mailer, along with Vidal's other contemporaries such as James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, and Truman Capote, holds a stronger grip on our literary heritage and national imagination than does Vidal. Their books and plays are ...

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