Myra Breckinridge
by Gore Vidal
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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Synopsis
Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary. It was made into a movie in 1970. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s," the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant sexual practices, as filtered through an aggressively camp sensibility.
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- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12211
- Title
- Myra Breckinridge
- Author
- Gore Vidal
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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