| Edition |
1st edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 255 pages ; 22 cm |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Mainly reviews of novels written by such authors as Susan Sontag, John O'Hara, John Hersey, and Henry Miller. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Essays.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst00915437
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| Genre/Form |
Essays (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Essays.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Vidal, Gore, 1925- Reflections upon a sinking ship. [1st ed.]. Boston, Little, Brown [1969] (OCoLC)575871002 |
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