In this brilliant sequel to his acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest," celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his.
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In this brilliant sequel to his acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest," celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Feb 10, 2008
Valediction
In his second memoir, Point to Point Navigation, the 80-year-old Gore Vidal is in a valedictory mood, recalling departed friends and especially his longtime partner Howard Auster, as well as anticipating his own demise. The morbidity is undercut by Vidal's wit, unsentimental restraint, and style. His portraits of playwright Tennessee Williams--the "Glorious Bird"--Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart and novelist Paul Bowles are unforgettable. At the same time Vidal favors the vignette here, so the memoir has a haphazard quality. Ostensibly a sequel to Palimpsest, the memoir's penultimate revelation isn't personal at all but a rehashing of JFK assassination theory. Elsewhere Vidal critiques his own biographers. It's fascinating when the author anatomizes his friends' characters, but it's dicey when Vidal challenges Lindbergh's pro-German isolationism on the strength of no more than his patrician insider status. In addition the memoir frustrates when Vidal gives the reader only a skeletal x-ray of the 50-year-bond he shared with Auster. In this case one wants to know more, not less.
