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# Palimpsest: A Memoir Hardcover – October 3, 1995

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## Customer Reviews

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    Singular man, singular memoir.  Incredibly interesting, devastatingly funny.
  

*by V***. on Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2017*

READ THIS BOOK.If you're interested in the big view of what happened in 20th century America, Gore Vidal had a singular perspective that spanned more worlds than perhaps any other individual in the century. Palimpsest is him at his witty, vindictive, elegant, catty, erudite, expansive, generous, self-involved finest.  His first-hand perspective on the Kennedy Bros (JFK, RFK), growing up with Jackie O; his complicated friendships with titans of 20th century American art (Bernstein, Nureyev, Kerouac, Tennessee Williams), his vast spite and emnity for others (Capote, Anais Nin), his central involvement in the golden age of American cinema, and his place in the grand experiment of American democracy (first openly gay congressional candidate).And if you don't care about all that, but you want to read a funny, scathing, bitchy (can i say that in an amazon review??) book full of one-line zingers that make you want to chuckle and guffaw and let out a DAYYUM GIRL YOU GOT SCHOOLED, then that's a good enough reason to read this.

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    Palimpsest is Gore Vidal's charming memoir of his first forty years!
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020*

Gore Vidal (1925-2012) first saw the light of day in a West Point hospital. His father Eugene Vidal was the coach of the Army football team. He was a silver metalist in the Olympic games and an All American football player from South Dakota. he would found three airlines and serve as FDR's director of civil aviation. Gore's mother was Nina Gore the alcoholic virago daughter of Senator Thomas Gore (1870-1949) a Mississippi born blind man who was elected the new state of Oklahoma's first United States senator. Gore Vidal grew up in his grandfather's Washington estate and later at the home of his mother and her second husband Hughdie Auchincloss. He served in World War II and upon his discharge lived and traveled in Europe. His sencond novel The Pillar and the Fury created a stir at it was an overtly homosexual novel. In the 1950s and 1960's he won fame as a writer of television drama, Broadway plays and movies. Vidal gained great fame for his  novels such as Burr. Lincoln., 1876, Hollywood, Washington Dc, Creation and Julian. Gore Vidal never married and was bisexual,. This memoir goes into detail about several of his affairs and friendships with people like Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Anais Nin and many others. He was close to his stepsister Jackie Kennedy and Jack. He was also close to Hollywood celebrities especially Paul Newman and Joann Woodward.  The book is a wide ranging look at friends and the American literary scene in the postwar era. The story ends but is continued in the sequel to this interesting volume. Gore Vidal was a brilliant intellectual who had deep insight into American politics and life. An excellent memoir by one of America's greatest modern authors.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Literary and historical candy!
  

*by Y***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2020*

Vidal.  So educated, cultured, connected.  So at times flat out snarky.  Behind the scenes with the Kennedys, Hollywood big wigs, foreign service diplomats, authors, on and on.  Going places the reader would never have had access.  Often his bottom line on things dryly hilarious..  Loved it.  Will pass on to good friend.  Too good to be left on the shelf

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