Myra Breckinridge And Myron
Gore Vidal author Jay Parini editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Publishing:2nd Oct '25
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 2nd October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Everyone is talking about Myra Breckinridge - and everything you have heard about her is true
'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.
'Gore Vidal, a writer of lustrous and fabulously readable prose, was always ahead of his time, so it is wonderful to see some of his finest works being republished for an audience who will be ready to (re)discover his daring, his insight and his wickedly waspish wit' STEPHEN FRY
Nothing in the versatile Vidal's past will quite prepare the reader for Myra Breckinridge * Time *
A masterpiece * The Listener *
Shocking some, tickling others, and outraging many * Newsweek *
A genuinely, brutally witty book, a parody on Hollywood, pop intellectualism, pornography and just about anything else you could name * New York Times *
Myra should be enjoyed as a romp, but the harsh accurate social satire but be digested * New Statesman *
After many readings, Myra Breckinridge continues to give wicked pleasure, and still seems to have fixed the limit beyond which the most advanced aesthetic neo-pornography ever can go -- Harold Bloom * New York Review of Books *
Has literary decency fallen so low? * Time *
I consider Vidal to be a master of that new form which is taking shape in world literature and which we may call the hyper-novel or the novel elevated to the square or the cube * Italo Calvino *
ISBN: 9780349147130
Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm
Weight: unknown
464 pages