Point to Point Navigation:A Memoir
Vidal, Gore
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Edition: Paper
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780307275011
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: 2007-10-20
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Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater, politics and international society where he has cut a broad swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and on a number of occasions lost). Among the gathering of notables to be found in these pages, sketched with a draftsman’s ease and evoked with the panache of one of our great raconteurs, are Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams (the “Glorious Bird”), Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Greta Garbo, Federico Fellini, Rudolph Nureyev, Elia Kazan, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the book’s most moving pages are devoted to the illness and death of his partner of five decades, Howard Austen, and indeed the book is, among other things, a meditation on mortality written in the spirit of Montaigne.
- Other Books By This Author
- Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (Hardcover)
- Imperial America : Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (Paperback)
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