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Myra Breckinridge And Myron
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Myra Breckinridge And Myron
Gore Vidal's two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Myra Breckinridge arrives in Hollywood intending to prove that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies - and survive. And in "Myron" she returns to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego.
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It is a risky (and risqué) business becoming 'Woman Triumphant'—exercising total power over men like Rusty Godowski. Rusty just wants to be a Hollywood star like everyone else at Buck Loner's academy, but now that Buck's niece, Myra Breckinridge, has arrived, the curriculum is taking a wildly strange turn.
Willing to risk all to be superb and unique, Myra means to prove to her old friend Dr Montag that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies—and survive.
'From Myra's first appearance on the page, she was a megastar,' explains her creator, Gore Vidal. Myra caused a second furore when she returned in Myron to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego, a drab little man fallen into marriage and a job in Chinese catering. Theirs is a contest of hormonal roulette, with glorious Myra off on time-travelling missions of mercy back to 1948 to try to change cinema history and to introduce her own radical theories of population control. Meanwhile, Myron tries desperately to stay in the present as inconspicuously as Myra will allow.
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Myra Breckinridge And Myron by Gore Vidal combines sharp satire with comedic elements, capturing Vidal's prowess as both a seer and entertainer. The book is often praised for its incisive critique of American culture, likening Vidal's style to the wit and insight of figures such as Henry Adams and the humour of Monty Python.
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ISBN: 9780349103655
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 April 1993
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Abacus
Contributors:
- Introduction by Jay Parini
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 162.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 303g
Pages: 448
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About the Author
Gore Vidal wrote his first novel, Williwaw at the age of nineteen while overseas in World War II. Since then he has written plays, short stories, essays, films and television scripts and has been a Democratic activist.
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