Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012,

Myra Breckinridge : a novel / Gore Vidal ; [introduction by Camille Paglia]. - First Vintage International edition. - xviii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. - Vintage international .

"Finally back in print -- Gore Vidal's outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece. "I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she regards as the supreme achievements of Western culture; and a sacred mission to bring heteronormative civilization to its knees. Fifty years after its first publication unleashed gales of laughter, delight, and ferocious dissent ("Has literary decency fallen so low?" asked Time), Myra Breckinridge's moment to instruct and delight has once again arrived"--

9780525566502 (paperback)

2019004286


FICTION / Satire.
FICTION / Classics.


Satire.

PS 3543 .I26 M9 1992 / M9 2019

813/.54