| Who pushed Myron Breckinridge throughhis television screen and onto the set of Siren o[Babylon? Who is the mysterious Mr. Williams?And who is the mad cook Whittaker Kaiser, orMaude the mischievous hair bender? Whowants to stop history in its tracks so as to pre-serve permanently the world of Louis B.Mayerand Andy Hardy? And who wants to alter thcmale sex so as to save the world from overpopu-lation? Who and what is Myron? The answers are in Gore Vidal s spectacularnew novel, which celebrates the return of MyraBreckinridge--more passionate, more creative,more outrageous than ever. Myra Breckinridge was acclaimed "a master-piece" by the English critic Brigid Brophy and"a moral masterpiece" by the Sunday Times ofLondon. John Leonard, in The New YorkTimes Book Review, called it "one of the bestnovels in recent years." |
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