Myra Breckinridge
by Vidal, Gore
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0218512937
- ISBN 13
- 9780218512939
- Seller
-
Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Anthony Blond, 1968. Book. Very Good +. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition. VG+, Spine Ends Crush, Bumping, Dealer Label, Offset, Edge-foxing/VG, PC, Edgewear, Tear, Abrasion, Mild Foxing. Satire. Expanded condition report/scan on request..
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Klanhorn (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016077
- Title
- Myra Breckinridge
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0218512937
- ISBN 13
- 9780218512939
- Publisher
- Anthony Blond
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Satire & Tragicomedy;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Klanhorn
Biblio member since 2006
Queanbeyan, NSW
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- PC
- Partially chipped (dustjacket)
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....