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100 1 _aVidal, Gore,
_d1925-2012,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMyra Breckinridge :
_ba novel /
_cGore Vidal ; [introduction by Camille Paglia].
250 _aFirst Vintage International edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bVintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
_cMay 2019.
300 _axviii, 217 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aVintage international
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 7 _aFICTION / Satire.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aFICTION / Classics.
_2bisacsh
655 7 _aSatire.
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700 1 _aPaglia, Camille,
_ewriter of introduction.
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