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Washington D C

- Number 6 in series
Af: Gore Vidal Engelsk Paperback

Washington D C

- Number 6 in series
Af: Gore Vidal Engelsk Paperback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 416
ISBN-13: 9780349105277
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0349105278
Kategori: Historiske romaner
Udg. Dato: 23 maj 1994
Længde: 28mm
Bredde: 126mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 23 maj 1994
Forfatter(e): Gore Vidal
Forfatter(e) Gore Vidal

Kategori Historiske romaner

ISBN-13 9780349105277

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 416

Udgave

Længde 28mm

Bredde 126mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 23 maj 1994

Oplagsdato 23 maj 1994

Forlag Little, Brown Book Group

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