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Myra Breckinridge And Myron
Myra Breckinridge And Myron
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Published:
22 April, 1993
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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 Loner's academy, but now that Buck's 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 one's fantasies - and survive.
'From Myra's fist appearnce 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.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780349103655 |
| ISBN10 | 0349103658 |
| Number Of Pages | 448 |
| Item Weight | 303 g |
| Product Dimensions | 162 x 198 x 30 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Nothing in the versatile Vidal's past will quite prepare the reader for Myra Breckinridge * Time *
A masterpiece * The Listener *
Shocking some, tickling others, and outraging many * Newsweek *
A genuinely, brutally witty book, a parody on Hollywood, pop intellectualism, pornography and just about anything else you could name * New York Times *
Myra should be enjoyed as a romp, but the harsh accurate social satire but be digested * New Statesman *
After many readings, Myra Breckinridge continues to give wicked pleasure, and still seems to have fixed the limit beyond which the most advanced aesthetic neo-pornography ever can go -- Harold Bloom * New York Review of Books *
Has literary decency fallen so low? * Time *
I consider Vidal to be a master of that new form which is taking shape in world literature and which we may call the hyper-novel or the novel elevated to the square or the cube * Italo Calvino *
Falling somewhere between the realms of Henry Adams and all of Monty Python, Gore Vidal has for many years served as America's own Tiesias - a seer and scourge, as well as an entertainer of the highest order. * Jay McInerney *
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Author's Bio
Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.