Palimpsest

Palimpsest

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Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
1995 • 488 pages

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Covers Gore Vidal's life from his birth in 1925 West Point through his Washington boyhood, military career, homosexual life in the 1940s and 1950s, early television achievements, literary endeavors, and complicated family life. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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