Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal

by Gore Vidal and Bob Stanton

Book Overview

Immerse yourself in this insightful and entertaining collection of interviews given by Gore Vidal over the span of twenty years. Listen to the author's witty, candid, and unconventional observations... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0818403020
• ISBN13: 9780818403026
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: L. Stuart
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Author's review

I wrote VIEWS with Gore Vidal almost twenty years ago. It is a delight to see that it has been a source of information for various scholars throughout these many years. I arranged the book in a new way for doing interviews, putting Vidal into a dramatic setting where he had to answer questions from more than twenty of us engaged in interviewing him. I myself interviewed him off and on for more than three years. Reviewers at the time called my format a new kind of Mega-interview form. I recently included material from VIEWS in a huge 750-page study that will be published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2001, a work to be known as GORE VIDAL: A MENIPPEAN SATIRIST. Vidal is America's greatest satirist--ever! And those people who read VIEWS will see that Vidal spares very few his quick thrusts of ridicule to bring them down to earth for a good laugh--at their expense, of course.