Word: gores
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...reviewer. Among other things, he held a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Virginia (subject of his thesis: James Joyce), and had taught as an assistant professor at Princeton for seven years. Even so, he found preparing for this week's cover story on Novelist Gore Vidal to be a rigorous exercise, since his preparations required reading or rereading a 23-volume shelf including 15 novels, various essay collections and other works by his subject. Says Gray: "I came to admire Vidal for his accomplishments in an old but honorable role, the well-rounded man of letters...
...quotation is from 1876 (Random House, 364 pages, $10), Gore Vidal's new novel. In any other year but the Bicentennial, 1876 would merely be a bestseller. It was, after all, prompted by two earlier Vidal bestsellers: Washington, D.C. (1967), a study of mid-20th century political scrambling; and Burr (1973), a revisionist appraisal of the foundering fathers. "With 1876" says Vidal, "I've examined the dead center of the country, the year of the Centennial, and there's a nice symmetry, obviously, that it's coming out the year of the Bicentennial...
...case of Schuyler's creator, the two may in fact be one and the same. For despite his advanced years and portly figure, the tremor in his right hand, rheumatic shoulder and incipient cataracts, Charlie bears an uncanny resemblance to Gore. If proof were needed of this connection, Vidal teasingly provides it. At one point in 7576, Schuyler meets "a most sensitive, wide-eyed, rather plump young man from, I think, Boston." Though Schuyler does not give his name, he is clearly Henry James. The young writer promises to send Schuyler his newly issued first novel (James himself...
...really like Andy Hardy, a starry-eyed boy who liked to have a good time," mused Author Gore Vidal about his latest subject, the Roman Emperor Caligula, who once appointed his horse as Consul and twice abducted brides of noblemen in the middle of their weddings. "He was a hedonist." Vidal's screenplay is scheduled to go before the cameras in Rome next year. Appropriately, the $7 million production will be financed by a 20th century hedonist, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione...
...itself like plants growing and dying a billion times a second in a rich, dank forest--you can hear the process. There's something in the language that achieves this: short sentences appearing and vanishing like postcards and daguerrotypes. Doctorow doesn't invest his people with modern concerns like Gore Vidal does, in his historical fiction, adding sex and neurosis and perversity of motive. The grainy literariness of the ragtime people is inviolable--ladies constantly fleeing to the garden, derbies dotting riverside parks on a Sunday...