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18245633 |
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20150705214639.0 |
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140729s2015 nyuaf 000 0deng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2014016971 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780374280482 (hbk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0374280487 (hbk.) |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN |
9780374711191 (ebook) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)879582649 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
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FlFlSLA |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PS3543.I26 |
| Item number |
Z79 2015 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
818/.5409 |
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B |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mewshaw, Michael, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1943- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Sympathy for the devil : |
| Remainder of title |
four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Michael Mewshaw. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
200 p., [8] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know. Detached and ironic; a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting quip; enigmatic, impossible to truly know: This is the calcified, public image of Gore Vidal--one the man himself was fond of reinforcing. 'I'm exactly as I appear,' he once said of himself. 'There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.' Michael Mewshaw's Sympathy for the Devil, a memoir of his friendship with the stubbornly iconoclastic public intellectual, is a welcome corrective to this tired received wisdom. A complex, nuanced portrait emerges in these pages--and while 'Gore' can indeed be brusque, standoffish, even cruel, Mewshaw also catches him in more vulnerable moments. The Gore Vidal the reader comes to know here is generous and supportive to younger, less successful writers; he is also, especially toward the end of his life, disappointed, even lonely. Sparkling, often hilarious, and filled with spicy anecdotes about expat life in Italy, Sympathy for the Devil is an irresistible inside account of a man who was himself--faults and all--impossible to resist. As enlightening as it is entertaining, it offers a unique look at a figure many only think they know."--Provided by publisher. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"An intimate memoir of the author's long friendship with notoriously difficult author, Gore Vidal"--Provided by publisher. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Vidal, Gore, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1925-2012 |
| General subdivision |
Friends and associates. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mewshaw, Michael, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1943- |
| General subdivision |
Friends and associates. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Authors, American |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type |
Book |
