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Palimpsest : a memoir / Gore Vidal.

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 (author.). Cummings, Jeff, (narrator.).

Summary:

Gore Vidal refers to this memoir of his first 39 years as a "palimpsest", pointing out how remembrances are shaped and reshaped with time. From the vantage point of his villa on the Italian coast, Vidal tells of his life as a novelist and dramatist, politician and critic, and discusses the figures he has known, including the Kennedys, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jack Kerouac, Amelia Earhart, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Woven throughout are meditations on writing, history, acting, politics, and love.

Record details

ISBN: 9781543696394
ISBN: 1543696392
Physical Description: 15 audio discs (18 hours, 21 minutes) : stereo, 4 3/4 inches.
Publisher: New York, New York : Vintage, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020, 2018, 1995.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Palimpsest -- The small bedroom at Merrywood -- The desire and the successful pursuit of the whole -- Dah -- Dot -- Briefly, schools, war -- "Today my nerves are shattered. but I am indomitable!" -- Guatemala -- Dancers: an interval -- "Gene Collins" -- Rome and the glorious bird -- The guest of the blue nuns -- Paris, Proust's whorehouse, Gide, Bowles, and Isherwood -- London, E. M. Forster, as well as friends-to-be -- "I was the last king-emperor, you know" -- "Now you owe me a dollar" -- At home on the Hudson in the Cold War -- To do well what should not be done at all -- London, Nina -- The twenty-ninth New York congressional district -- Thirteen green pages with hindsight added -- Getting out -- Getting back --Section: e lot 293 (1/2), subdivisions 2 and 4.