* In this sequel to PALIMPSEST, Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with his signature wit and literary elegance

Point to Point Navigation ; A Memoir

L'auteur relate les 29 premières années de sa vie en convoquant ses souvenirs et les figures de sa jeunesse sans souci de chronologie. Ce portrait d'un écrivain à succès, petit-fils de sénateur, ami des Kennedy, d'Anaïs Nin et de Tennessee Williams, constitue une réflexion sur l'Amérique et ses moeurs mais aussi sur l'homosexualité.

Palimpseste : mémoires

Hollywood

Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters.

CREATION

Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war, philosophy, and adventure . . . "There isn't a page of CREATION that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight."-- John Leonard, The New York Times

Création

En direct du Golgotha - Occasion

The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshiping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.

Julien

Palimpseste : parchemin dont on a effacé la première écriture pour y écrire un nouveau texte. Sous une forme originale, l'écrivain Gore Vidal convoque ici ses souvenirs et les figures de sa jeunesse : les Kennedy, Anaïs Nin, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Cocteau, Carter, Reagan... Dans un style admirable de finesse, mais sans complaisance, il brosse une superbe galerie de portraits doublée d'une réflexion profonde sur l'Amérique, son puritanisme et ses moeurs.

Palimpseste

Gore Vidal's new collection of essays shows him still writing at his finest.  His comments on the deplorable state of American politics - from Bill Clinton to George Bush - are as apposite as ever and, controversially, there are two magnificent essays on the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh - who entered into an extraordinary correspondence with Vidal when he was in gaol - to the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

Point to Point Navigation ; A Memoir

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