Gore Vidal – Duluth

When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in 'Duluth’, the popular television series and the one called Beryl finds herself in a 'Hyatt Regency’ romantic novel entitled Rogue Duke. In Duluth they do it all with word processors. Meanwhile Lieutenant Darlene Ecks, strip-search enthusiast, terrorizes a barrio full of illegal Mexican immigrants until they rise up in defiance, the mayor plumbs the mysteries of a bright red spaceship and a life and death contest is waged between Duluth’s leading socialite and its foremost author to complete contradictory biographies of Betty Grable.

Gore Vidal’s wicked extravaganza sports special effects not expected in a novel; and it poses taunting puzzles like who is the guy they call The Dude? And why is it said, 'Every society gets the Duluth it deserves’?

Falling somewhere between the realms of Henry Adams and all of Monty Python, Gore Vidal has for many years served as America’s own Tiresias – a seer and a scourge as well as an entertainer of the highest order. –Jay McInerney

One of the most brilliant, most radical and most subversive pieces of writing to emerge from America in recent years. –New Statesman   źródło opisu: Abacus, 1993 źródło okładki: www.littlebrown.co.uk