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Vidal Gore Washington, D. C.
History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick that Gore Vidal has mastered in his ongoing chronicle of that circus of opportunism and hypocrisy called American politics and which he plays with renewed vigour in this expose of the nation's capital.Young Clay Overbury, Senator Burden Day's assistant, has both a modest background and immense ambitions. Extremely handsome, oozing charm and seemingly dedicated to the Senator's cause, he is also duplicitous, conniving, and disloyal. But Enid Canford doesn't think so: she marries him, so providing the Sanford newspaper dynasty with a direct line to the Senator. Her father Blaise, at first loathing his son-in-law, later learns to love him - for all the wrong reasons. So begins this tale of lust and ambition set in the Republic's high noon. From the late 1930s to Jo McCarthy's reign of terror, Gore Vidal charts the seamy, sleazy side of Washington. Mixing sober history with nakedly Gothic melodrama, he provides an intoxicating cocktail of blackmail, betrayal, sexual ambivalence, lunacy and conspiracy - or, in a word, politics.
3545 Руб.
Vidal Gore Lincoln
In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through four of the most divisive and dangerous years of the nation's history. Observed alternately by his loved ones, his rivals and his future assassins, Lincoln at first appears as an inept and naive backwoods lawyer. People in this novel are not averse to turning up, getting drunk, and regaling the reader with details of Lincoln's whoring activities and his seemingly inexhaustible supply of folksy stories. Yet gradually Lincoln the towering leader of deep vision emerges in a Washington engulfed by fear, greed and the horrors of the Civil War. Lincoln's loving but mentally decomposing wife, his view from the White House on slavery and America's bloodiest war, and his own, fierce personal ambition: all are portrayed with a vibrancy and an urgency that almost belies what they have now become - history itself.
4007 Руб.
Vidal Gore Burr
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American history, debunks, in this historical novel of Burr's life, the common and casually held notion of the man as a scoundrel and an adventurer. Instead he appears as one of the 'host of choice spirits' forced to live among coarse, materialistic, hypocritical people, among them Jefferson and Hamilton. Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry 'parvenu' from the West Indies and the former as a semi-literate slave-owning tyrant. American politics, suggests Vidal, had a penchant for the vulgar. Even then. Veering backwards to the revolution and the early days of the republic, stopping at dinner-parties on the way, and reaching forward to the future, Burr is a novel about treason, both the particular and in general. For what, asks Vidal, really belongs to whom? What properly belongs to the Constitution, to the nation, to the family even, intriguingly, to novelists and historians?
4007 Руб.
Vidal Gore Julian
Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.
3545 Руб.
Vidal Gore Creation
Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters.
3545 Руб.
Calvino Italo Adam, One Afternoon
An acclaimed collection of enchanting, comic and clever tales from the Italian master This collection of playful, deadly febles is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.
2177 Руб.
Calvino Italo Invisible Cities
'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times 'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.'
2854 Руб.
Виниловая пластинка Robert Fripp – Washington Square Church 2LP
Треклист:LP1:Washington Square IWashington Square IIWashington Square IIIWashington Square IVWashington Square VWashington Square VI.LP2:Washington Square VIIWashington Square VIIIWashington Square IXWashington Square XWashington Square XI.
5550 Руб.
Classic Put-Downs. Insults with style
Do words fail you just when you need them most? If so, you need a few pointers from the past masters of put-down to keep others in their place. This book brims over with stinging comments, verbal face shippings, and subtle insults for dealing with every kind of situation. Features contributions from some of history’s greatest word-slingers, including Oscar Wilde, Samuel Johnson, Woody Allen, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, Winston Churchill, Gore Vidal, Joan Rivers, and Stephen Fry.
1447 Руб.
Виниловые пластинки, PANEGYRIC, ROBERT FRIPP - Washington Square Church (2LP)
Каталожный номер DGMLPX103, Формат 2LP, Лейбл PANEGYRICA1 Washington Square IA2 Washington Square IIA3 Washington Square IIIB1 Washington Square IVB2 Washington Square VB3 Washington Square VIC1 Washington Square VIIC2 Washington Square VIIIC3 Washington Square IXD1 Washington Square XD2 Washington Square XIProducer - David SingletonPerformer - Robert Fripp
7390 Руб.
Жевательный мармелад VIDAL STIXI Sour Rainbow Pencils, 90 г
Мармелад из Испании Vidal Sour Rainbow Pencils - мармелад известный на весь мир.Продукция компании Vidal стала любимым лакомством во всех странах Запада и Востока. И не удивительно, ведь это качественная, с дополнением натуральных компонентов, вкуснейшая продукция, которую любят и дети и взрослые.Сочный аромат мармелада Vidal отлично сочетает с его необычным видом мармеладных палочек-карандашей. Кисло-сладкой буйство вкуса - внутри нежный желейный наполнитель, а сверху он приправлен кислой посыпкой.
154 Руб.
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61688 Руб.
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Куртка Hemispheres II мужская Outdoor Research, цвет Harbor/Sage
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42632 Руб.
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С курткой Outdoor Research Hemispheres II не нужно жертвовать гидроизоляцией ради мобильности и воздухопроницаемости. Трехслойная оболочка GORE-TEX C-Knit легкая и дышащая, а двухслойные панели GORE-TEX с технологией Stretch обеспечивают эластичность...
42632 Руб.