Every time a friend succeeds something inside me dies: the life of Gore Vidal
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�...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 464 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates Illustrationen 24 cm |
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Autor: Parini, Jay
Jahr: 2015
Contents Introduction i Rock Creek Ramble 6 ( hapler One i. A Silver-Plated Mug 9 ii. Capitol Steps i4 hi. A Wider World 27 Truman and Gore at the Plaza 38 Chapter Two i. Not a Lovely War 40 ii. Two Roads Diverging 5i hi. Storm at Sea 56 iv. Hearts of Darkness 58 Edgewater Recalled 67 (hapler Three i. Portrait of the Artist as Balletomane 69 ii. Pillars of Salt 72 hi. Stateside 83 iv. More Dolce Vita 87 v. Finding Dutchess County 90 vi. Loving Howard 95 Beverly Hills Blues IOI
Contents viii ( hapler Four i. Detecting Life 103 11. The Spanish Main 111 hi. Media as Messages 114 iv. Silvery Screens 117 v. More Visits to Small Planets 121 vi. Outlaws 124 vii. Ben-Hur 128 vm. A Place at the Round Table 132 At the Water’s Edge—Hyannis 134 (hapler Five I. “You’ll Get More with Gore” 136 II. Slouching Towards Camelot 145 in. Essaying the World 148 iv. Roman Spring 153 v. Julian Rising 158 Moravia and Gore on the Isola Tiberna 164 ( hapler Six I. Romanitas 166 II. Capitol Steps Revisited 173 hi. The Holy Family 175 iv. Myra 177 v. Busy Weekends 182 vi. The Vidal-Buckley Debates 185 vii. Furious Visions 191 Miss Sontag Writes a Novel 198 ( luipler Seven I. A Bad Year zoo II. Writing Richard Nixon 205 hi. Italian Hours 207 iv. Patriotic Gore 213
Contents ix v. The Swirl 219 vi. Myron Unmanned 222 The Man Who Wouldn’t Fall to Earth 228 ( haplor Eiyht I. Half a Century 230 II. 1876 and All That 236 in. Memories, Dreams, Self-Reflections 239 iv. Apocalypse Not Quite Yet 243 v. Hollywood Redux 250 vi. Grace and Hope 253 Gore and Isaiah Berlin in Oxford 259 Chapter ine I. Acting President 261 II. Running in Place 267 in. Duluth : Love It or Loathe It 272 iv. Honorary Citizen 274 v. Land of Lincoln 278 vi. Ah, Venice! 284 The Lesson of the Master 287 Chapter Ten I. “It’s a Trade” 288 11. “One Disaster After Another” 293 in. Fear of Flying 294 iv. Imperium 297 v. Sailing the Coast 302 vi. Adding Wings to the Mansion 306 Lenny and Gore 314 (liapler Eleven I. “Our Country’s Biographer” 316 II. “The Other Side of the Camera” 319
X Contents hi. Attacking the Sky-God 3 2 3 iv. Thinking About Sex 328 v. Retreats, Advances 330 vi. In the Widening Gyre 332 At the Harvard Faculty Club 343 Chapter Twelve I. Rethinking Washington 345 ii. Dreams of Wholeness 348 in. Elder Statesman 351 iv. Reviewing the Life 352 V. The Golden Age 355 vi. Still the Best Man 358 Songs in the Hollywood Hills 366- Chapter Thirteen i. The Pamphleteer 368 ii. Finding Founding Fathers 372 hi. A Death Before Bedtime 375 iv. Marching to the Sea 380 v. The Last Memoir 385 vi. Mopping-Up Operations 388 vn. Snapshots of the End 393 Conclusion 401 Postscript 407 Acknowledgments 411 Notes 413 Index 437
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