At home : essays 1982-1988 / Gore Vidal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012.

Contributor:

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, x, 303 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First American edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [1988]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Published in somewhat different form in 1987 by André Deutsch, London, under title: Armageddon? : essays, 1983-1987.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has autograph of Gore Vidal.

Related Work:

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012. Armageddon?

ISBN:

0394570200 :

OCLC:

17803603