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Sympathy for the devil, four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal, Michael Mewshaw

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Sympathy for the devil

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Michael Mewshaw

four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal

"An intimate memoir of the author's long friendship with notoriously difficult author, Gore Vidal"--Provided by publisher"Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know, detached and ironic; a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting quip; enigmatic, impossible to truly know. This is the calcified, public image of Gore Vidal--one the man himself was fond of reinforcing ... Michael Mewshaw's Sympathy for the Devil, a memoir of his friendship with the stubbornly iconoclastic public intellectual, is a welcome corrective to this tired received wisdom. A complex, nuanced portrait emerges in these pages--and while Gore can indeed be brusque, standoffish, even cruel, Mewshaw also catches him in more vulnerable moments. The Gore Vidal the reader comes to know here is generous and supportive to younger, less successful writers; he is also, especially toward the end of his life, disappointed, even lonely"--Provided by publisher

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