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At home : essays, 1982-1988
- Author
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012.
- Title
- At home : essays, 1982-1988 / Gore Vidal.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Published
- New York : Random House, [1988]
- Description
- x, 303 p. ; 25 cm.
- Other contributors
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012. Armageddon?
- Other titles
- Don Belton collection
- Notes
- Published in somewhat different form in 1987 by André Deutsch, London, under title: Armageddon? : essays, 1983-1987. LC copy in dust jacket. Source: Copyright deposit, Mar. 1, 1989.
- Contents
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- pt. 1. At home in Washington, D.C. ; On flying ; Frederic Prokosch : the European connection ; Tennessee Williams : someone to laugh at the squares with ; Richard Nixon : not The best man's best man ; Hollywood! ; Ronnie and Nancy : a life in pictures ; Armageddon? ; The day the American Empire ran out of gas ; A cheerful response ; Ollie ; The national security state ; Mongolia! ; At home in a Roman street
- pt. 2. The bookchat of Henry James ; William Dean Howells ; The golden bowl of Hewnry James ; Logan Pearsall Smith loves the adverb ; Oscar Wilde : on the skids again ; Paul Bowles's stories ; Calvino's death ; Why I am eight years younger than Anthony Burgess ; Dawn Powell : the American writer ; How I do what I do if not why.
- Kinsey subjects
- Writers.
- ISBN
- 0394570200 : 9780394570204