Mr Vidal writes with an engaging freshness, which is rarely naïve, occasionally salacious and almost always entertaining

Spectator

A preposterously good novel

Sphere

There is no one quite like him, and if you don't know his work then you should' Erica Wagner, The Times

By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, clubs and the brittle, played-out demi-monde . . . by day a wasteland of hollow men, lonely apartments and empty morning coffee stands . . .

Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business. The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city.

And when Carla turns up unexpectedly from his more passionate past, Robert finds he must choose between the fixed path of money-making and dull conventionality and the fraught, uncertain path of love and freedom.

Les mer
Gore Vidal is the most elegant, erudite and eclectic writer of his generation' - Roy Hattersley, Guardian
Mr Vidal writes with an engaging freshness, which is rarely na?ve, occasionally salacious and almost always entertaining - Spectator

A preposterously good novel - Sphere

There is no one quite like him, and if you don't know his work then you should' Erica Wagner, The Times
Les mer
Gore Vidal is the most elegant, erudite and eclectic writer of his generation' - Roy Hattersley, Guardian

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780349116990
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Little, Brown Book Group; Abacus
Vekt
117 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.