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Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal
By Mewshaw, Michael
- ISBN
- 9780374280482 9780374711191
- Publisher
- Farrar
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Reviewed on January 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
Author Mewshaw (Short Circuit; Do I Owe You Something?) recounts 40 years of friendship with the late author Gore Vidal (1925–2012) in this memoir, profiling one of the towering figures of 20th-century American letters during the second half of his epic life. Mewshaw attempts to bring a more balanced picture of Vidal, contrasting a public persona of irony and misanthropic pronouncements by highlighting some of his better traits...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
