000144178 000__ 01903cam\a2200253\a\4500 000144178 001__ 144178 000144178 005__ 20210513050831.0 000144178 008__ 911127s1992\\\\nyu\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000144178 010__ $$a 91045312 000144178 020__ $$a0231072082 (alk. paper) 000144178 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm25009405 000144178 035__ $$a144178 000144178 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dWEA 000144178 049__ $$aISEA 000144178 05000 $$aPS3543.I26$$bZ67 1992 000144178 08200 $$a818/.5409$$220 000144178 24500 $$aGore Vidal :$$bwriter against the grain /$$cedited by Jay Parini. 000144178 260__ $$aNew York :$$bColumbia University Press,$$cc1992. 000144178 300__ $$aviii, 321 p. ;$$c24 cm. 000144178 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-310) and index. 000144178 5050_ $$aGore Vidal : the writer and his critics / Jay Parini -- Imagining Vidal / Italo Calvino -- Williwaw : Gore Vidal's first novel / David Price -- The city and the pillar as gay fiction / Claude J. Summers -- Gore Vidal : the entertainer / Bernard F. Dick -- The Vidalian manner : The judgment of Paris, Two sisters, Kalki / Robert F. Kiernan -- A note on Vidal's Messiah / Alan Cheuse -- The fiction of history in Gore Vidal's Messiah / Heather Neilson -- Vidal as playwright : in gentlest heresy / Ray Lewis White -- Vidal's satiric voices / William H. Pritchard -- Living appropriately : Vidal and the essay / Samuel F. Pickering -- On Gore Vidal : wit and the work of criticism / Robert Boyers -- Vidal as essayist : the man who has everything / Thomas M. Disch -- Gore Vidal : private eye / Stephen Spender -- My o my o Myra / Catharine R. Stimpson -- The Romanitas of Gore Vidal / James Tatum -- The central man : on Gore Vidal's Lincoln / Harold Bloom -- Vidal's Empire / Richard Poirier -- Babylon revisited / Louis Auchincloss. 000144178 5050_ $$a(cont.) America and the Vidal chronicles / Donald E. Pease -- An interview with Gore Vidal / Jay Parini. 000144178 60010 $$aVidal, Gore,$$d1925-2012$$xCriticism and interpretation. 000144178 7001_ $$aParini, Jay. 000144178 85200 $$bgen$$hPS3543.I26$$iZ67$$i1992 000144178 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:144178$$pGLOBAL_SET 000144178 980__ $$aBIB 000144178 980__ $$aBOOK