In Bed with Gore Vidal Riverdale Avenue Books

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"Gore Vidal was a good friend for over sixty years. If you want to know who Gore really was, read In Bed with Gore Vidal, which uncovers, and evokes, his complicated private life and how that influenced and shaped his wider life, politics, and work. Lost loves, sex with hustlers, a life with Howard Austen, his relationships with women and the truth about his sexuality: this is a juicy, intelligent and honest portrait of a dear friend and exceptional writer and man."-Scotty Bowers, author of Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and The Secret Sex Lives of the Stars Gore Vidal claimed there was no such thing as "gay," only gay sexual acts. But what was the truth about his sex life and sexuality-and how did it affect and influence his writing and public life? In In Bed With Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master, Tim Teeman interviews many of Vidal's closest family and friends, including Claire Bloom and Susan Sarandon, as well as surveying Vidal's own rich personal archive, to build a rounded portrait of who this lion of American letters really was away from the page. Here, revealed for the first time, Teeman discovers the Hollywood stars Vidal slept with and the reality of his life with partner Howard Austen-and the hustlers they both enjoyed. Was Gore's true love really a boy from prep school? Was he really, as he said, bisexual, and if so how close did he really get to marrying women, including Claire Bloom and Joanne Woodward? And if Vidal really was gay, why did he not want to say so? Did his own sex secrets underpin a legal fight with adversary William F. Buckley, still being played out after his death? Much as he fought against being categorized, Vidal, Teeman shows, also proved himself to be a pugnacious advocate for gay sexual freedom. Teeman also, for the first time, vividly and movingly evokes the last painful and tragic years of Vidal's life and the bitter, contentious legacy he has left behind. "Tim Teeman's biography of Gore Vidal is the perfect combination of racy gossip-from steamy celebrity liaisons to hustlers in Rome-and penetrating analysis. It shows how a complicated attitude to sex and sexuality shaped an author's life and work. An original, intriguing, and necessary portrait of an American icon." - Edmund White, author of City Boy "Sex with hustlers and Hollywood stars-for all his insistence that sexuality did not define him, Gore Vidal sure got around. And while he didn't hit the streets with placards, he was still, in many ways, a gay rights revolutionary. Tim Teeman's biography, full of new material and interviews, reveals how Vidal's sexuality and sex life influenced his life and his work - and tells, for the first time, the moving story of his painful last years. With deftness, wit, intelligence, and a journalist's nose for a good story, Teeman pulls back the curtain on an American icon. It seems Gore Vidal can still surprise us. What a page-turner!" -William J. Mann, author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn and Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand About the Author: Tim Teeman is a journalist and broadcaster. For fourteen years he has worked as an editor, feature writer, and interviewer for The Times of London, most recently as their US Correspondent, in which he covered stories like Hurricane Sandy and profiled many celebrities and public figures including Woody Allen, George Clooney, and Liza Minnelli. He has also contributed to publications including Elle, The New Statesman, The Guardian, The Independent, Independent on Sunday, Attitude, and Time Out. In Bed With Gore Vidal is his first book. He lives in New York City.

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Julian - Vidal Gore

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Opis - Rzymski cesarz, filozof, żołnierz, reformator, poeta. Jedna z najbarwniejszych postaci starożytności. Geniusz wojenny dorównujący poziomowi Juliuszowi Cezarowi i Aleksandrowi Wielkiemu. Oddany bogom hellenistycznym, walczy z chrześcijaństwem. Traci życie w wieku trzydziestu dwóch lat. Nad powieścią unosi się klimat końca starego świata zastępowanego przez coś gorszego. Poganie odchodzą stopniowo do przeszłości, a wraz z nimi gaśnie blask imperium, które już nigdy nie będzie tak silne jak niegdyś. Vidal z kunsztem odtwarza realia epoki drugiej połowy IV w. n. e. Julian postrzegany jest jako jedna z najlepszych powieści historycznych przez niego napisanych. Nazwa - Julian Oryginalny tytuł - Julian Autor - Vidal Gore Oprawa - Twarda Wydawca - Erica Kod ISBN - 9788364185670 Kod EAN - 9788364185670 Wydanie - 1 Rok wydania - 2014 Język - polski Tłumacz - 31422,zieliński bronisław; Format - 16.5x24.0cm Ilość stron - 600 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2014-12-12

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Gore Vidal - Burr Vintage Publishing

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Brilliantly realized, enormously readable, Gore Vidal's #1 best seller paints a fascinating portrait of Aaron Burr, who lived out his long life partly as a suspected traitor and partly as one of the most heroic and colorful founding fathers. Though the memoir itself and the young journalist are fictional, the facts are actual. The portrait of the major characters -- Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, the Madisons, Jackson, Van Buren -- are drawn from their own words and from the observations of their contemporaries. The result is the rarest of books -- a powerfully readable historical novel which at the same time recreates with scrupulous accuracy and the originality of a major historical imagination the most significant years in the history of America.

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Gore Vidal - Julian Random House

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The remarkable bestseller about the Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, "Julian" is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels.

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Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal

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The Fiction Of Gore Vidal And E.l. Doctorow

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The Essential Gore Vidal

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Notes on Gore Vidal's Life and Work

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The Delaplaine Gore Vidal - His Essential Quotations

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Gore Vidal - Julian Little, Brown Book Group

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Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.

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A Study Guide for Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet

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Gore Vidal - Julian Random House

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The remarkable bestseller about the Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, "Julian" is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels.

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STWORZENIE ŚWIATA- GEORGE VIDAL Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy Warszawa

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Tytuł STWORZENIE ŚWIATA- GEORGE VIDAL Autor Gore Vidal Język polski Oprawa twarda Liczba stron 599 Ciężar 0.58 kg Wydawnictwo Państwowy

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ALPINESTARS WEB GORE-TEX buty turystyczne 2013 Alpinestars

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Wygodne, wysokiej jakości, wodoodporne buty turystyczne wykonane ze skóry. Wewnętrzna oddychająca wodoodporna membrana GORE-tEX

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Dreaming War Nation Books

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When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America's current imperial ambitions to the experience of World War Two and the post-war Truman doctrine. And now, with the Cheney-Bush leading us into permanent war, Vidal asks whose interests are served by this doctrine of pre-emptive war? Was Afghanistan turned to rubble to avenge the 3,000 slaughtered on September 11? Or was "the unlovely Osama chosen on aesthetic grounds to be the frightening logo for our long contemplated invasion and conquest of Afghanistan?" After all he was abruptly replaced with Saddam Hussein once the Taliban were overthrown. And while "evidence" is now being invented to connect Saddam with 9/11, the current administration are not helped by "stories in the U.S. press about the vast oil wealth of Iraq which must- for the sake of the free world- be reassigned to U.S. consortiums."

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