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In Point to Point Navigation, novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. The title refers to a form of navigation he resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. He says, "As I was writing this account of my life and times since Palimpsest, I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the Bering Sea that we had to navigate so often with a compass made inoperable by weather." It is a beautifully apt analogy for the hazards eluded (mostly) during his eventful life, and for the way this memoir proceeds-- far from linear, but always on course.
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Union Carnegie Public Library AUDIO VIDAL (Text) 37883000102372 Audio Audiobook CD None 09/30/2011 Available -

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  • ISBN: 1428112979
  • Physical Description: 7 sound discs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, [2006]

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Unabridged.
In container (17 cm.).
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Narrated by the author.
Summary, etc.:
In Point to Point Navigation, novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. The title refers to a form of navigation he resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. He says, "As I was writing this account of my life and times since Palimpsest, I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the Bering Sea that we had to navigate so often with a compass made inoperable by weather." It is a beautifully apt analogy for the hazards eluded (mostly) during his eventful life, and for the way this memoir proceeds-- far from linear, but always on course.

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Subject: Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Genre: Audiobooks.

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