Reflections upon a sinking ship /

Mainly reviews of novels written by such authors as Susan Sontag, John O'Hara, John Hersey, and Henry Miller.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1969]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of 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.