Myra Breckinridge /
"Finally back in print -- Gore Vidal's outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece. "I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instruc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Vintage International edition. |
| Series: | Vintage international
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| Summary: | "Finally back in print -- Gore Vidal's outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece. "I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she regards as the supreme achievements of Western culture; and a sacred mission to bring heteronormative civilization to its knees. Fifty years after its first publication unleashed gales of laughter, delight, and ferocious dissent ("Has literary decency fallen so low?" asked Time), Myra Breckinridge's moment to instruct and delight has once again arrived"-- |
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| Item Description: | Originally published by Little & Brown in 1968, Republished in hardcover with Myron by Random House in 1986 and reprinted in a volume with Myron by Random House in 1986. |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 217 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0525566503 9780525566502 |