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Reflections upon a sinking ship.

Gore Vidal

Reflections upon a sinking ship.

by Gore Vidal

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Published by Little, Brown in Boston .
Written in


Edition Notes

Essays.

Classifications
LC ClassificationsPS3543.I26 R4
The Physical Object
Paginationxiii, 255 p.
Number of Pages255
ID Numbers
Open LibraryOL5621582M
LC Control Number68030880

Gore Vidal (Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, October 3, - J ) was an American writer.. Vidal was born at West Point, New York, the only child of Eugene Luther Vidal () and Nina Gore (). He was promiscuous in his youth and was openly lived with a man for over fifty years until he died in Vidal died of pneumonia at his home in the Hollywood Hills, Los. Gore Vidal’s collection of essays on literature and politics Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship, pairs nicely with our riff on a Remember the Maine cocktail (named for an American ship that went down off the coast of Cuba leading to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.). We’ve reframed the original call to arms name for the drink and instead consider the disasters that countries have.

And then there is the other great symbol of the Rubáiyát, which is the rose, standing for all beauty that must decay. Its relevance to the Titanic is elusive – unless one includes pure escapism, and James Cameron’s heroine of that name. She too, took her momentary pleasure. A Full Life Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter SIGNED 1st1st Hardcover Reflections: A Folklore: $ Reflections: A Folklore History of Lewisville Texas by Jeff Fielder 1st ed HB.

Of the approximately who survived the sinking of the ship, only seven attended this year’s reunion. A touching memorial was held during the reunion. Charlie’s son Mark, who serves on the board for the survivor’s group, read aloud the names of those survivors and their spouses who have died in . Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship () Hardcover Paperback Kindle: Collected Essays () Hardcover Paperback Kindle: Homage to Daniel Shays () Hardcover Paperback Kindle: Matters of Fact and of Fiction () Hardcover Paperback Kindle: Views from a Window () Hardcover Paperback Kindle: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire ().


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Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship is a collection of twenty-five essays, most of them on topics related to literature, which Mr.

Vidal has published since Several first appeared in this journal. Together, they constitute the second volume of unassuming but distinguished work which is, I believe, quite unlike anything else in American letters today.

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