"America's finest essayist" (The New Statesman) has gathered over 100 of his best essays into one indispensable volume, composed of three parts--"State of the Art", "State of the Nation", and "State of Being"--to present an acerbic, stylish, and constantly surprising commentary on politics, culture, and literature.
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"America's finest essayist" (The New Statesman) has gathered over 100 of his best essays into one indispensable volume, composed of three parts--"State of the Art", "State of the Nation", and "State of Being"--to present an acerbic, stylish, and constantly surprising commentary on politics, culture, and literature.
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New. 1994. Paperback. A collection of essays taken from 40 years of the author's work. It is divided into three sections: State of the Art, which covers literature; State of the Union, which deals with politics and public life; and State of Being, which gives his personal responses to people and events. Num Pages: 1312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 65. Weight in Grams: 882......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Vidal was not a great novelist-- his best book was the superb but uncharacteristic historical novel, "Julian," about the 4th century emperor, and most of the rest of his novels were superficial or tedious, or both. But he vies with Updike (also overrated as a novelist) as our most distinguished man of letters. These essays make that point very well.
