Gore Vidal : sexually speaking, collected sex writings

by Gore Vidal

Other authorsDonald Weise
Paper Book, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

818/.5409

Publication

San Francisco : Cleis, c1999.

Description

A best-seller in hardback, this extraordinary collection of fourteen essays and other previously unpublished material will now be available in paperback edition to a wider readership. Vidal has an international reputation as a best-selling author and is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking classic Myra Beckingridge. Often compared to writers such as Edmunda White, Christopher Hitchens and Christopher Isherwood, and still maintaining a high public profile in the US and abroad, Vidal is one of the most profilic social commentators and is at his best on the suse

User reviews

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Interesting and controversial positions on sexuality by author of many historical novels and innumerable screenplays and television scripts. Opinions of other, some lesser known, gay authors. He rejects homosexual as an identity--"there are homosexual acts not homosexual people>'

Language

Original publication date

1999

Physical description

280 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

1573440825 / 9781573440820
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