内容简介
In a witty and elegant autobiography that
takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the
celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore
Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.Writing from his desks in
Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through
the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and
international society where he has cut a wide swath, recounting
achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and sometimes
lost). From encounters with, amongst others, Jack and Jacqueline
Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles,
Johnny Carson, Francis Ford Coppola to the mournful passing of his
longtime partner, Howard Auster, Vidal always steers his narrative
with grace and flair. Entertaining, provocative, and often moving,
Point to Point Navigation wonderfully captures the life of
one of twentieth-century America’s most important writers.