Gore Vidal

Buda, Confucio, Herodoto, Anaxágoras, Sócrates y Pericles son algunos de los personajes con los que el narrador de esta historia, Ciro Espitama, se cruza y debate en esta vívida evocación de un perío

En el inquieto clima tropical de una nación sudamericana, todo parece estar preparado para que estalle la revolución. Un aventurero norteamericano, un general ambicioso y un literato francés están a

Al tiempo que el presidente Wilson involucra a su país en la Gran Guerra europea, en California está naciendo la forma más poderosa de manipular la realidad que haya existido jamás: la industria del

Creación una de las novelas más ambiciosas de Gore Vidal , narra el periplo de Ciro Espitama, embajador de un imperio que se extiende desde el Mediterráneo hasta la India, en su afán por resolver algunos de los grandes enigmas de todos los tiempos. De este modo, su esplendido relato se convierte en fascinante recorrido por los tiempos de Buda, Confucio, Anaxagoras, Herodoto, Pericles y Socrates. En el ambito de la novela historica, probablemente no exista una obra que refleje con tanta fuerza, amplitud y precision el ambiente de una epoca como Creacion .

Clay Overbury es un joven ambicioso que en cada peldaño de la escalera del éxito sacrifica un poco más de su lealtad y honestidad. Su semblanza cifra la atmósfera de una ciudad en la que el poder se negocia a costa de todo valor humano. Otra de las obras mayores de Gore Vidal.

Amenazado de muerte por sus enemigos, apenas respetado por sus correligionarios, hostilizado por las voces proesclavistas, Lincoln vive aislado en la Casa Blanca, cumpliendo a pesar de todo con su al

POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. As he says, 'As I was writing this account of my life and times since PALIMPSEST, I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the Bering Sea that we had to navigate so often with a compass made inoperable by weather.' It is a beautifully apt analogy for the hazards eluded (mostly) during his eventful life. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society, 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, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, 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.

'Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often courageous - and outrageous! - forthrightness, Vidal explores his keystone subjects: primarily the worlds of literature and US politics; but also showbiz, sexuality and modern manners. His gaze ranges from the fiction of Calvino and Updike to the politics of pornography to the Clinton and Bush administrations, America post-September 11 and contemporary imperial ambitions. These essays are a witty and brilliant assessment of our times from the most memorable of American literary masters.

In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life. Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society where he has cut a wide swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and sometimes lost). From encounters with, amongst others, Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Francis Ford Coppola to the mournful passing of his longtime partner, Howard Auster, Vidal always steers his narrative with grace and flair. Entertaining, provocative, and often moving, Point to Point Navigation wonderfully captures the life of one of twentieth-century America's most important writers.

Unafraid to point fingers and assassinate characters, Gore Vidal has always been provocative, if not universally liked. A prolific essayist and acclaimed author of historical novels such as 1984's Lincoln, his talent for positioning history within a modern context is one thing about Vidal that remains undisputed.