Creation

Name: Creation
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Gore Vidal
ISBN: 9780349104751

Gore Vidal

23/09/1993
Abacus

NC (0 avis)

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters. Revue de presse Our greatest living historical novelist. ( ANTHONY BURGESS) An historical novel of awesome scope and scholarship. ( OBSERVER) Highly absorbing, rich in history, irony and erudition. ( GUARDIAN) Splendid, serene, magisterial. ( SUNDAY TIMES) Biographie de l'auteur Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.