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Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan (2000, Paperback) 
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Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan (2000, Paperback)

Author: Fred Kaplan
Publisher: Anchor Books
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 038547704X
ISBN-13: 9780385477048
Product ID: EPID1720213
Description: The author of this life of Vidal had the complete cooperation of his subject and full access to his papers. The result is a wide-ranging biography covering Vidal's unpromising early years, his immediate success as a writer, his celebrity...
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Synopsis
The author of this life of Vidal had the complete cooperation of his subject and full access to his papers. The result is a wide-ranging biography covering Vidal's unpromising early years, his immediate success as a writer, his celebrity friendships, and his equally notorious feuds.

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Publication Date:2000-10-01

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Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:1.8 in
Weight:30.4 oz

Publisher's Note
This first major, authorized biography of a towering literary and cultural figure, published to coincide with The Golden Age (Doubleday, Fall 200), the seventh title in Vidal's Narratives of Empire series.

No writer since Hemingway has lived his life on as ambitious or international a scale as Gore Vidal, whose work, like Hemingway's, has become a prominent landmark in twentieth century American literature. Thanks to Vidal's complete cooperation and Kaplan's complete autonomy, this meticulously researched biography has all the glamour, sex, gossip, and family scandal one would expect. But more than that, Kaplan ties together the diversity and variety of his subject's work and life in a highly satisfying, utterly thorough study that will be the starting point for any critical and cultural analysis of Gore Vidal for years to come.

Industry Reviews
"A rich chronicle of a celebrated career...."
Goonan

"...Fred Kaplan must be commended for doing a splendid job sorting out a life distributed among novels, essays, lectures, plays, films, television programs, the memoir and countless interviews--all this before the 250 interviews Vidal gave his quite authorized biographer....In trying to clear up the great muddle of facts that has characterized his subject's life, Kaplan does not try hard enough to curb his encyclopedic impulse toward inclusiveness. He gives us the guest list of apparently every party Vidal attended and even reports on the medical conditions of Vidal's pets....Ultimately, a human Vidal manages to emerge from under the weight of names and facts here. Kaplan's Vidal is never self-pitying, even when he has good cause to be. Instead, he is always game, ever willing to reinvent himself. It is paradoxically his zeal to put on a new mask to face changing circumstances that seems to reveal the most about who he truly is."
Friedman

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