{"product_id":"9780349120454","title":"Selected Essays","description":"Author: Gore Vidal\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349120454\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2008\u003cbr\u003ePages: 464 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' - John Simpson, Daily Mail\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often courageous - and outrageous! - forthrightness, Vidal explores his keystone subjects: primarily the worlds of literature and US politics; but also showbiz, sexuality and modern manners. His gaze ranges from the fiction of Calvino and Updike to the politics of pornography to the Clinton and Bush administrations, America post-September 11 and contemporary imperial ambitions.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays are a witty and brilliant assessment of our times from the most memorable of American literary masters.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901043753118,"sku":"ING-9780349120454","price":46.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349120454.jpg?v=1782352344","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349120454","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}