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portada Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship With Gore Vidal
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21x14x1.3 cm
Weight
0.28 kg.
ISBN13
9780374536015
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Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship With Gore Vidal

Michael Mewshaw (Author) · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · Paperback

Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship With Gore Vidal - Mewshaw, Michael

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Synopsis "Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship With Gore Vidal "

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 fond of reinforcing. I'm exactly as I appear, he once said of himself. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water. Michael Mewshaw's Sympathy for the Devil, a memoir of his friendship with the stubbornly iconoclastic public intellectual, is a welcome corrective to this tired received wisdom. A complex, nuanced portrait emerges in these pages--and while Gore can indeed be brusque, standoffish, even cruel, Mewshaw also catches him in more vulnerable moments. The Gore Vidal the reader comes to know here is generous and supportive to younger, less successful writers; he is also, especially toward the end of his life, disappointed, even lonely. Sparkling, often hilarious, and filled with spicy anecdotes about expat life in Italy, Sympathy for the Devil is an irresistible inside account of a man who was himself--faults and all--impossible to resist. As enlightening as it is entertaining, it offers a unique look at a figure many only think they know.

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