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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Science fiction
The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece
Everyone is talking about Myra Breckinridge - and everything you have heard about her is true
'I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess.'
So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she regards as the supreme achievements of Western culture; and a sacred mission to bring heteronormative civilization to its knees.
'Gore Vidal, a writer of lustrous and fabulously readable prose, was always ahead of his time, so it is wonderful to see some of his finest works being republished for an audience who will be ready to (re)discover his daring, his insight and his wickedly waspish wit' STEPHEN FRY
Praise for Myra Breckinridge And Myron
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Nothing in the versatile Vidal's past will quite prepare the reader for Myra Breckinridge - Time
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A masterpiece - The Listener
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Shocking some, tickling others, and outraging many - Newsweek
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A genuinely, brutally witty book, a parody on Hollywood, pop intellectualism, pornography and just about anything else you could name - New York Times
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Myra should be enjoyed as a romp, but the harsh accurate social satire but be digested - New Statesman
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