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The Golden Age: Number 7 in series
Gore Vidal
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Description for The Golden Age: Number 7 in series
Paperback. * The magnificent concluding volume of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history. Series: Narratives of Empire. Num Pages: 480 pages, genealogical table. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
THE GOLDEN AGE is the final, eponymous novel that brings to an end what Gabriel García Márquez has called 'Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels or novelised histories', NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE. Like a latter day Anthony Trollope, Vidal masterfully balances the personal with the political, the invented with the historical fact. His heroine from Hollywood, Caroline Sanford, reappears in Washington as President Roosevelt schemes to get the USA into the war by provoking the Japanese. In the novel's ten year span America is master of the globe, with Japan and Europe as colony and dependency under ... Read more
THE GOLDEN AGE is the final, eponymous novel that brings to an end what Gabriel García Márquez has called 'Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels or novelised histories', NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE. Like a latter day Anthony Trollope, Vidal masterfully balances the personal with the political, the invented with the historical fact. His heroine from Hollywood, Caroline Sanford, reappears in Washington as President Roosevelt schemes to get the USA into the war by provoking the Japanese. In the novel's ten year span America is master of the globe, with Japan and Europe as colony and dependency under ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Narratives of Empire
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349114279
SKU
V9780349114279
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About Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.
Reviews for The Golden Age: Number 7 in series
Vidal's combination of learning, wit and disdain gets into your blood. He can change the way you think
OBSERVER
This entertaining portrait of an imperial elite may well be, as Vidal intends, the version of US history that survives in the coming decades.
IRISH TIMES
Crackpot theory has seldom been so suavely and entertainingly put across. ... Read more
OBSERVER
This entertaining portrait of an imperial elite may well be, as Vidal intends, the version of US history that survives in the coming decades.
IRISH TIMES
Crackpot theory has seldom been so suavely and entertainingly put across. ... Read more