Title Matters of fact and of fiction : essays 1973-1976 / Gore Vidal.

Publication Info.	New York : Random House, [1977]
	©1977

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction	814 V66M	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	814.54 VIDAL	Check Shelf
Portland Public Library - Adult Department	814.54 VID	Check Shelf

Edition	1st ed.
Description	viii, 285 pages ; 25 cm
Contents	[1.] The matter of fiction: The top ten best sellers -- The great world and Louis Auchincloss -- Calvino's novels -- Professor V. Nabokov -- French letters: theories of the new novel -- The hacks of academe -- American plastic: the matter of fiction -- [2.] The matter of fact: Some memories of the glorious bird and a earlier self -- Contagious self-love -- The four generations of the Adams family -- President and Mrs. U.S. Grant -- West Point -- The art and arts of E. Howard Hunt -- What Robert Moses did to New York City -- Conglomerates -- Political melodramas -- The state of the union.
Summary	A collection of seventeen essays written between 1973 and 1976, dealing with fiction, politics, and the world in general.
Subject	Fiction.
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst00923709
	Kultur.
	Aufsatzsammlung.
	Literatur.
	United States.
	Kultur. (DE-588)4125698-0
	Literatur. (DE-588)4035964-5
	United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1700-1975
	Geschichte 1950-1975
	Geschichte 1700-1975.
	Geschichte 1950-1975.
Genre/Form	Aufsatzsammlung.
ISBN	0394411285
	9780394411286

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