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  1. Creation (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349104751 - UTGIVEN: 1993-09

    Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters.[...]

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    från 189.00 kr
  2. Live from Golgotha (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349104782 - UTGIVEN: 199309

    Thanks to the latest breakthrough in computer software, a cyberpunk- known bleakly as The Hacker- is destroying the tapes that describe the mission of Jesus Christ and His Gospel or Good News. The Sacred Story is vanishing rapidly. Fortunately one tape is Hackerproof, that of Timothy, who in his you[...]

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    från 144.00 kr
  3. United States (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349105246 - UTGIVEN: 199409

    Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers [...]

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    från 212.00 kr
  4. Hollywood (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349105260 - UTGIVEN: 1994-04

    Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's capital as the nation's power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in this book. Caroline Sanford, [...]

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    från 145.00 kr
  5. Washington D.C. (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349105277 - UTGIVEN: 1994-04

    History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick that Gore Vidal has mastered in his ongoing chronicle of that circus of opportunism and hypocrisy called American politics and which he plays with renewed vigour in this [...]

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    från 179.00 kr
  6. Empire (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349105284 - UTGIVEN: 1994-04

    Here is the story of arguably America's finest hour; of the time when the twentieth century dawned, Queen Victoria died, and America, basking deliciously in excess wealth, rather thought it might snap up an empire of its own. Yet while politicians muse over the potential of China or the Philippines [...]

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    från 159.00 kr
  7. 1876 (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349105291 - UTGIVEN: 1994-04

    With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner parties, more corruption, and all the [...]

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    från 157.00 kr
  8. Lincoln (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349105307 - UTGIVEN: 1994-04

    In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through[...]

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    från 160.00 kr
  9. Burr (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349105314 - UTGIVEN: 199404

    In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American [...]

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    från 144.00 kr
  10. Dark Green, Bright Red (Häftad)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349105703 - UTGIVEN: 200507

    A novel of intrigue set in central America.

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    från 99.00 kr
  11. Thirsty Evil (Häftad)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349106564 - UTGIVEN: 200507

    Gore Vidal's only collection of short stories, first printed in 1956, perfectly demonstrates his unequalled ability to alternate and explore different literary styles.[...]

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    från 125.00 kr
  12. The City and the Pillar (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349106571 - UTGIVEN: 199705

    Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door-, is haunted by the memory of a romanctic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses himself, his progresss through the secret gay world of 1940's A[...]

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    från 146.00 kr
  13. Palimpsest (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349108001 - UTGIVEN: 199608

    This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T.P. Gore, and in the various domestic situations of his complicated and exasperat[...]

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    från 159.00 kr
  14. Season of Comfort (Häftad)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349110240 - UTGIVEN: 199711

    From the author of MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DARK GREEN, BRIGHT RED, a novel, first published in 1949, describing the growing-up of a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when he is young, and whose mother is portrayed as a 'monster'.[...]

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    från 118.00 kr
  15. The Smithsonian Institution (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349110721 - UTGIVEN: 199910

    Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that somehow, he is expected. An old man, Bentsen, shows him around, and T. realises that all is not as it seems. As he go[...]

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    från 112.00 kr
  16. The Golden Age (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349114279 - UTGIVEN: 200112

    THE GOLDEN AGE is the final, eponymous novel that brings to an end what Gabriel Garcia Marquez has called 'Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels or novelised histories', NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE. Like a latter day Anthony Trollope, Vidal masterfully balances the personal with the politica[...]

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    från 160.00 kr
  17. The Last Empire (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349115283 - UTGIVEN: 200204

    Gore Vidal's new collection of essays shows him still writing at his finest. His comments on the deplorable state of American politics - from Bill Clinton to George Bush - are as apposite as ever and, controversially, there are two magnificent essays on the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh - who ente[...]

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    från 251.00 kr
  18. In a Yellow Wood (Häftad)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349116990 - UTGIVEN: 200507

    Robert Holton has returned from Europe and settled into a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroker. He suppresses memories of nights of love in Florence as he tries to succeed in the city, but when Carla turns up he has to choose between conventionality and the fraught path of love.[...]

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    från 139.00 kr
  19. Two Sisters (Häftad)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349117478 - UTGIVEN: 200507

    Vidal's acclaimed memoir in the form of a novel.

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    från 119.00 kr
  20. Selected Essays (Storpocket)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349120454 - UTGIVEN: 200712

    Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligen[...]

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    från 208.00 kr
  21. Search for the King (Häftad)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780349121949 - UTGIVEN: 200808

    * A dramatic and fantastic allegory, interweaving historical characters with giants, dragons, werewolves, libidinous ladies of the manor and a very nasty vampire.[...]

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    från 127.00 kr
  22. Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780374280482 - UTGIVEN: 2015-01

    A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know
    Detached and ironic; a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting quip; enigmatic, impossible to truly know: This is the calcified, public image of Gore Vidal one the man himself was fo[...]

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    från 0.00 kr
  23. 1876 (Häftad)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780375708725 - UTGIVEN: 2000-02

    Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experie[...]

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    från 129.00 kr
  24. Burr (Häftad)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780375708732 - UTGIVEN: 200002

    Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experie[...]

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    från 152.00 kr
  25. Empire (Häftad)

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    Gore Vidal

    ISBN: 9780375708749 - UTGIVEN: 200008

    "Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." --"The New York Times Book Review"
    In this extraordinarily p[...]

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    från 205.00 kr