Myra Breckinridge And Myron by Gore Vidal (English) Paperback Book

Description: Myra Breckinridge And Myron by Gore Vidal Gore Vidals 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 ones fantasies - and survive. And in "Myron" she returns to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description It is a risky (and risque) 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 Loners academy, but now that Bucks 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 ones fantasies - and survive.From Myras fist 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 popuation control. Meanwhile Myron tries desperately to stay in the present as inconspicuously as Mrya will allow. Author Biography Gore Vidal was the author of The Narratives of a Golden Age series as well as countless bestsellers. Review Falling somewhere between the realms of Henry Adams and all of Monty Python, Gore Vidal has for many years served as Americas own Tiesias - a seer and scourge, as well as an entertainer of the highest order. - Jay McInerney Kirkus US Review Given that Mr. Vidal has something vaguely wicked to say about the non-culture of the neon, bearded present, and the celluloid culture that brought it all on; that he is also, even more vaguely, unsettled by popular sexual quests of various sorts-nonetheless this little gasper is mainly fun and prurient frolic. Solitary in the awareness of the truths of the Forties Great Films (the "entire range of human legend...no irrelevant film was made") Myra Breckinridge, "whom no man will ever possess," works her will, vocally and kinetically, among the total and semi-innocents of Uncle Ducks acting academy in Hollywood. Taking on the hapless Buck in uneven combat (hes the uncle of her late husband Myron) Myra sets sail toward the visonary world of single sex, where men are not precisely men and women expand hitherto neglected possibilities of communication. Practice follows theory head-on, as a young, stumbling heterosexual named Rusty is let in on the New Age in a chapter that curls the pages; and Myra is left with Rustys girl friend, little Mary Ann, another fathom on to the uncharted uterine. But it seems that surgery rather than City Hall had blended identities, and an auto accident revives Myron (who marries Mary Ann), rejects Myra, and is active in Planned Parenthood, the Great Dagwood Bumstead of the Great Sixties....In spite of some hilarious moments, the narrow focus palls-more groin than grin. Dedicated to Christopher Isherwood. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description It is a risky (and risque) 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 Loners academy, but now that Bucks 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 ones fantasies - and survive.From Myras fist 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 popuation control. Meanwhile Myron tries desperately to stay in the present as inconspicuously as Mrya will allow. Review Quote Falling somewhere between the realms of Henry Adams and all of Monty Python, Gore Vidal has for many years served as Americas own Tiesias - a seer and scourge, as well as an entertainer of the highest order. - Jay McInerney Details ISBN0349103658 Author Gore Vidal Pages 448 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Year 1993 ISBN-10 0349103658 ISBN-13 9780349103655 Format Paperback Publication Date 1993-04-22 Imprint Abacus Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Birth 1925 Media Book Language English UK Release Date 1993-04-22 Audience General NZ Release Date 2012-08-06 AU Release Date 2012-08-06 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1117710;

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