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Title : Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal
ISBN : 0374536015
Release Date : 2016-01-19
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Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Friendship with This item Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal Set up a giveaway Theres a problem loading this menu right now Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Friendship with Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal is a book that takes the reader through the various stages of the relationship Michael Mewshaw had with the great writer essayist gadflywit intellectual and political polemicist who was Gore Vidal Gore Vidal Pages Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal No one would call Gore Vidal a big old sweetie pie but some people who knew him were aware that this most acerbic of wits and nettlesome of contrarians could be generous and kind ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ Friendship with Gore Vidal April 22 On “Charlie Rose” a conversation with Author Michael Mewshaw His new book is called Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal Sympathy for the devil four decades of friendship with This is the calcified public image of Gore Vidalone the man himself was fond of reinforcing Michael Mewshaws Sympathy for the Devil a memoir of his friendship with the stubbornly iconoclastic public intellectual is a welcome corrective to this tired received wisdom A complex nuanced portrait emerges in these pagesand while Gore can indeed be brusque standoffish even cruel Mewshaw also catches him in more vulnerable moments Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Friendship with One such is Michael Mewshaw a freelance journalist and novelist whose Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal purports to be what its title suggests a memoir of friendship and it is that I guess in the sense that Mewshaw occupied the position of friend As such he is able to show us aspects of Vidal — fastidious and unflappable in his public persona — that the man might have preferred to remain private specifically a few instances of quiet benevolence Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Friendship with Michael Mewshaws Sympathy for the Devil a memoir of his friendship with the stubbornly iconoclastic public intellectual is a welcome corrective to this tired received wisdom A complex nuanced portrait emerges in these pages—and while Gore can indeed be brusque standoffish even cruel Mewshaw also catches him in more vulnerable moments Sympathy for the Devil Four Decades of Friendship with In Sympathy for the Devil Michael Mewshaw pursues two objectives One he celebrates his “four decades of friendship” with Vidal to show that the author’s persona — aristocratic dismissive cynical and cold — harbored a secret sharer “generous hospitable loyal to friends and a quiet contributor to charities that benefited other authors” Customer reviews Sympathy for the Devil Four Sympathy for the Devil does offer a unique glimpse of his life in what is at first a refreshing iconoclastic way Since Vidal is often presented as a cold and inhumanly stoic reading a more human and flawed biography was interesting Sadly this refreshing angle becomes meanspirited in a passive aggressive way