New Releases by Gore Vidal

A savage, bitter, bawdy, biting, and brilliant satireAn audacious, propriety-snubbing literary event, Duluth managed to seduce The New York Times ("a knockout"), Los Angeles Times ("wonderfully nasty"), USA Today ("a black flag of a novel"), and People magazine ("raunchy, dirty, outrageous, rife with cliches -- and often very funny"). Spoofing just about everything imaginable -- social pretenses, motherhood, law enforcement, marriage, racism, literature, television, science fiction, sex -- Gore Vidal''s wild burlesque tells of two women who, after perishing in a snowdrift, are reborn in Duluth, the popular television series, and in the "Hyatt Regency" romance novel Rogue Duke. Meanwhile, Lieutenant (and strip-search enthusiast) Darlene Ecks is in zealous pursuit of a drug dealer, while Duluth''s mayor plumbs the mysteries of a spaceship, and a battle is waged between two Betty Grable biographers. Ingenious and bawdy, Duluth is an execution of razor-sharp satire and outlandish humor. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Bestselling author Gore Vidal joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. To satisfy a public that longs for a savior, Vidal''s eponymous hero of KALKI, born and bred in America''s Midwest, establishes himself in Nepal, puts out the word that he is the last incarnation of the god Vishnu, and predicts an imminent apocalypse meant to cleanse the planet. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

THE STORY: The New York Post describes the plot as follows: ...William Russell, the ex-Secretary of State, is a wit and scholar with high liberal principles, beloved of the eggheads and suspected by practical politicians. Joseph Cantwell is a

This stunning and illuminating portrait of national politics from the New Deal to the McCarthy era superbly blends historical figures with fictional characters. We follow the lives of Blaise Sanford, the ruthless Washington newspaper tycoon; his son, Peter, a liberal editor both fascinated and repelled by the imperial city; Peter''s beautiful and self-destructive sister Enid; her husband, Clay Overbury, a charismatic and ambitious politician; and James Burden Day, the powerful conservative senator. With characteristic wit and insight, Vidal chronicles life in the nation''s capital at a time when these men and others transformed America into possibly the last empire on earth.

Written as a sequel to his 1968 bestseller Myra Breckinridge, the novel was published shortly after an anti-pornography ruling by the Supreme Court. Vdal responded by replacing the profanity in his novel with the names of the Justices involved. Myra Breckinridge, the transsexual who terrorized Hollywood has transformed back into her former self, the literally and figuratively castrated Myron. However, the resurgence of his Myra personality literally pushes him into "Sirens of Babylon," a 1948 film that Myra thinks is the key to stopping overpopulation and the Nixon presidency. While inside this film (that takes three weeks to finishing filming, after which time repeats for the large group of people who have made it their home), Myron and Myra fight for control.

The protagonists of this political satire are Richard Nixon, George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy.

Two Sisters is Gore Vidal''s fictional memoir of a love affair with a beautiful set of twins in post-war Paris--a story skilfully interwoven with notebooks, diaries & the vivid fragment of a screenplay set in ancient Greece. In seductive settings from a brothel in a Parisian backstreet to the rooftops of 70s Rome, Vidal assembles his characters, real & imagined: Cocteau & Tennessee Williams, Gide & Mailer rub shoulders with creations as unforgettable as the ageing femme fatale Marietta Donegal & Hollywood hustler & flagellant Murray Morris. All are bound together in a mesmerising fiction that builds to an extraordinary conclusion.

This novel tells of a young gay man''s search for love in the closeted years of the 1940s.

This is an uncorrected galley proof of Vidal''s book.

Dealing with the topics which obsess the young -- from politics to difficult relations, adolescent love and the beginnings of a career -- this is the original, fictionalized version of Vidal''s memoir "Palimpsest".--fantasticfiction.co.uk.