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Chargement... In Bed with Gore Vidalpar Tim Teeman
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Gore Vidal was large on the world stage as an articulate, handsome, upper class, writer, actor, screenwriter, politician..a true renaissance man. It was known by 1950 that he was a homosexual, he was upfront about it. His second novel was all about it. He lived for over 50 years with a man. But through all of that, with huge parts of himself in his novels, his television appearances, his writings in general...and then the biographies and autobiographies...his sex life was not front and center and detailed. I just read Scott Bowers' book about the sex lives of the famous and little about Gore's sex life was exposed. This book tells it all and Scott Bowers fills in all the information he left out of his own book. A must have book for anyone who is a Gore Vidal fan. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Gore Vidal claimed there was no such thing as "gay, " only gay sexual acts. But what was the truth about his sex life and sexuality--and how did it affect and influence his writing and public life? With In Bed with Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master, Tim Teeman interviews many of Vidal's closest family and friends, including Claire Bloom and Susan Sarandon, as well as surveying Vidal's own rich personal archive, to build a rounded portrait of who this lion of American letters really was away from the page. Here, revealed for the first time, Teeman discovers the Hollywood stars Vidal slept with and the reality of his life with partner Howard Austen--and the hustlers they both enjoyed. Was Gore's true love really a boy from prep school? Was he really, as he said, bisexual, and if so how close did he really get to marrying women, including Claire Bloom and Joanne Woodward? And if Vidal really was gay, why did he not want to say so? Did his own sex secrets underpin a legal fight with adversary William F. Buckley, still being played out after his death? Much as Vidal fought against being categorized, Teeman shows how he also proved himself to be a pugnacious advocate for gay sexual freedom in his books, articles, and high-profile media appearances. Teeman also, for the first time, vividly and movingly evokes the final, painful and tragic years of Vidal's life, as he descended into alcoholism and dementia, his death, and the bitter, contentious legacy he has left behind. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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