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Reflections upon a sinking ship

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Little, Brown, 1969 - Literary Collections - 255 pages
Mainly reviews of novels written by such authors as Susan Sontag, John O'Hara, John Hersey, and Henry Miller.

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User Review  - RK Byers - Goodreads

most if this reads brilliantly. some of it reads like Aldous Huxley if Huxley had taken himself too seriously. Read full review

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User Review  - David - Goodreads

This book is a perfect illustration of the hazards of visiting the second-hand bookstore. I mean, here I am, with around 170 books on my "owned but not yet read" shelf, almost any of which deserves a ... Read full review

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Theories of the New Novel
12
Miss Sontags Second New Novel
41
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About the author (1969)

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. Two of his American chronicle novels, Lincoln and 1876, were the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, respectively. In 1993, a collection of his criticism, United States: Essays 1952-1992, won the National Book Award. He divides his time between Ravello, Italy, and Los Angeles.

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