Description: Palimpsest : A Memoir, Paperback by Vidal, Gore, ISBN 0593314395, ISBN-13 9780593314395, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Vidal on Vidal—a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject.
A New York Times best American memoir
“In the hands of Gore Vidal, a pen is a sword. And he points it at the high and mighty who have crossed his path.” —Los Angeles Times
Palimpsest is Gore Vidals account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist, dramatist, critic, political activist and candidate, screenwriter, television commentator, controversialist, and a man who knew pretty much everybody worth knowing (from Amelia Earhart to Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duke and the Duchess of Windsor, Jack Kennedy, Jaqueline Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Andre Gide, and Tennessee Williams, and on and on).
Here, recalled with the charm and razor wit of one of the great raconteurs of our time, are his birth into a DC political clan; his school days; his service in World War II; his emergence as a literary wunderkind in New York; his time in Hollywood, London, Paris and Rome; his campaign for Congress (outpolling JFK in his district); and his legendary feuds with, among many others, Truman Capote and William F. Buckley.
At the emotional heart of this book is his evocation of his first and greatest love, boyhood friend Jimmy Trimble, killed in battle on Iwo Jima.
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Book Title: Palimpsest : a Memoir
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Personal Memoirs, Popular Culture, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.9 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Author: Gore Vidal
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Book Series: Vintage International Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
