(10/03/2008) Matters Of Fact & Fiction by Gore Vidal. New York. 1977. Random House. keywords: Literature America Essays. 287 pages. Jacket design - The Artworks. 0394411285. April 1977.
FROM THE PUBLISHER -
Gore Vidal, celebrated novelist and playwright, is one of our foremost literary and political essayists as well. This new collection of his essays, written during the years 1973-76, is divided into two parts. The first deals with fiction and includes such pieces as 'Calvino's Novels', 'Professor V. Nabokov', and his most recent and controversial piece, 'American Plastic', a sharp criticism of some of today's fashionable novelists. The second part deals with politics and the world in general. It includes Vidal's pieces on Tennessee Williams, the Adams family, the Grants, E. Howard Hunt, Robert Moses and New York, and his 'State of the Union' address.
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