Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (902 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000M4RCUA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 590 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among the gathering of notables to be found in these pages, sketched with a draftsman’s ease and evoked with the panache of one of our great raconteurs, are Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams (the “Glorious Bird”), Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Greta Garbo, Federico Fellini, Rudolph Nureyev, Elia Kazan, and Francis Ford Coppola. As he says, “As I was writing this account of my life and times since Palimpsest, I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the
dale said TO THE POINT OF GENIUS!. Gore Vidal makes many fascinating points in POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION that I believe all can identify with on our journey to the grave. I bought the complete audio version of this book because I feel the emotion in Mr Vidal's voice, though he keeps it veiled in a professional, human warmth that listeners of audio books most appreciate. I admire him for speaking his mind whether others like it or not. His brilliance, experience and genius have long inspired my respect for him. The detailed death of his true love, after the grea. "Vidal on Grief, Art and Politics Of Course" according to Foster Corbin. In this what Vidal calls his final memoir that loosely covers events in his life from 196Vidal on Grief, Art and Politics Of Course Foster Corbin In this what Vidal calls his final memoir that loosely covers events in his life from 1964 to the present, a continuation of PALIMPSEST-- more or less-- he, in his words, navigates "so often with a compass made inoperable by weather." The memoir goes back and forth from Vidal's comments about his personal life to art to world events. If you get bogged down in trying to sort out all the marriages and divorces that make him somehow related to Jackie Kennedy, just keep reading for anon you'll know why he has little use for Jimmy . to the present, a continuation of PALIMPSEST-- more or less-- he, in his words, navigates "so often with a compass made inoperable by weather." The memoir goes back and forth from Vidal's comments about his personal life to art to world events. If you get bogged down in trying to sort out all the marriages and divorces that make him somehow related to Jackie Kennedy, just keep reading for anon you'll know why he has little use for Jimmy . Dinner with Gore ilprofessore Lovers of Vidal's wit and wisdom will feel as if they have been invited to dinner in Ravello or on Outpost Drive. Il maestro talks and occasionally repeats himself, as elders sometimes do, but the anecdotes you have heard before grow in repetition and expansion. This autobiography is not as carefully wrought as other of his books which deal with many of the same incidents, but there is a casual conversational tone here which is most endearing in someone as clever as Gore. As the shadows draw, we feel he no longer has to be sma
All rights reserved. Yet Vidal changes subjects and tone so frequently and abruptly—here tender, here combative—that the family memories and celebrity anecdotes become scattershot, limping to a close with a bizarre summary of somebody else's theory about how organized crime bosses ordered the assassination of John F. . 7)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Assured of his own genius ("I have never needed an editor"), he repeatedly slams biographer Fred Kaplan as "dull" and sex-obsessed, then jabs at a few other people who've written about him. He also makes frequent observations about the current events unfolding as he writes, and his criticisms of the New York Times and the Bush administration's "oil-and-gas junta" will come as no surprise. In