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Reflections upon a sinking ship
- Title
- Reflections upon a sinking ship / Gore Vidal.
- Author
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
- Publication
- Boston : Little, Brown, [1969]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3543.I26 R4 1969 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 255 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Mainly reviews of novels written by such authors as Susan Sontag, John O'Hara, John Hersey, and Henry Miller.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essay
- essays.
- Essays
- Essays.
- Essais.
- Note
- Essays.
- Contents
- Writers and the world -- French letters : theories of the new novel -- Miss Sontag's second new novel -- John O'Hara's old novels -- The revelation of John Horne Burns -- John Hersey's Here to stay? -- The wit and wisdom of J.K. Galbraith -- E. Nesbit's use of magic -- The waking dream : Tarzan revisited -- Notes on pornography -- Sex and the law -- The Sexus of Henry Miller -- The city and the pillar after twenty years -- On revising one's own work -- God's country : The American empire's beginning -- Edmund Wilson, tax dodger -- Public television : a meditation -- Byzantium's fall -- The holy family : the gospel according to Arthur, Paul, Pierre, and William and several minor apostles -- The Manchester book -- A passage to Egypt -- The liberal dilemma -- Gore Vidal : subject -- The twenty-ninth Republican Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, August 5-8 1968 -- A manifesto.
- LCCN
- 68030880
- OCLC
- ocm00002071
- 2071
- SCSB-8950607
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library