Anyone interested in gossip - about literary figures (Faulkner,
Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, the Sitwells), film people
(Garbo, Brando, Charlton Heston), royalty or demi-royalty (Princess
Margaret, the Queen, Princess Grace), American politicians (the
Roosevelts) - will be fascinated by this book. Vidal himself is
also a fascinating figure, excruciatingly frank - about his
sexuality, for instance. A wonderful picture of American high life
between 1945 and the mid-60s. (Kirkus UK)
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 exasperating mother,
Nina. Then come schooldays at St Albans and Exeter; the army; life
as a literary wunderkind in New York, London, Rome and Paris in the
'40s and '50s; sex in an age of promiscuity; and a campaign for
Congress in 1960. His cast includes Tennessee Williams, the
Kennedys, Eleanor Roosevelt, Truman Capote, Paul Newman and Joanne
Woodward, Christopher Isherwood, Jack Kerouac, Jane and Paul
Bowles, Santayana, Anais Nin, Norman Mailer, Leonard Bernstein and
the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among others.
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