TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vidal,Gore
AU  - Paglia,Camille
TI  - Myra Breckinridge: a novel 
T2  - Vintage international
SN  - 9780525566502 (paperback)
AV  - PS 3543 .I26 M9 1992 M9 2019
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
KW  - FICTION / Satire
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Classics
KW  - Satire
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "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"--
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