Author: VIDAL, GORE
Title: Visit to a Small Planet a Comedy Akin to a Vaudeville
Description: Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing, edge wear and toning to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears and nicks along with generalized rubbing and several smallish chips and creases / wrinkles. "Visit to a Small Planet is the rare article, a television play which has gained immeasurably in its transference to the stage. It's not only longer and louder, it's a great deal funnier." "As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. And Norman Mailer. As such, and because he thought that men and women potentially are bisexual, Vidal rejected the adjectives "homosexual" and "heterosexual" when used as nouns, as inherently false terms used to classify and control people in society." (from the book). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Gore Vidal Drama Plays Television Humor Fantasy
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Title: Visit to a Small Planet a Comedy Akin to a Vaudeville
Description: Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing, edge wear and toning to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears and nicks along with generalized rubbing and several smallish chips and creases / wrinkles. "Visit to a Small Planet is the rare article, a television play which has gained immeasurably in its transference to the stage. It's not only longer and louder, it's a great deal funnier." "As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. And Norman Mailer. As such, and because he thought that men and women potentially are bisexual, Vidal rejected the adjectives "homosexual" and "heterosexual" when used as nouns, as inherently false terms used to classify and control people in society." (from the book). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Gore Vidal Drama Plays Television Humor Fantasy
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 46364
- Book number: 46364
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