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Myra Breckinridge and Myron by Gore Vidal (1997, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100141180285

ISBN-139780141180281

eBay Product ID (ePID)330540

Product Key Features

Book TitleMyra Breckinridge and Myron

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Literary

Publication Year1997

GenreFiction

AuthorGore Vidal

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight10.3 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN87-040002

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisWhen luscious Myra Breckinridge bursts upon the Hollywood scene, it is clear that she craves success. No one -- not aspiring actor Rusty Godowski, not his girlfriend, Mary-Ann Pringle, not powerful agent Letitia Van Allen -- remains untouched by Myra's quest. Her job teaching Empathy and Posture at the Academy of Drama and Modeling, owned by her uncle Buck Loner, gives her the perfect opportunity to vamp, scheme, and seduce her way into the undiscovered lives and passions of others -- while trying to keep a few secrets of her own.In the sequel, Myron, the Breckinridge saga takes an increasingly bizarre turn. Myron seems to be an inconspicuous man with a sweet wife and a Chinese catering business, and Myra, determined to become a megastar, wages an outrageous battle for hormonal supremacy over the body she shares with Myron. In a tale that combines time-travel with the ultimate Hollywood fantasy, Gore Vidal leads us through the movie-star world of the fabulous forties as Myra attempts to alter cinema history.When Myra Breckinridge first appeared in 1968, critics were delighted, baffled, and somewhat appalled by this comedy of sex change. (Readers made it the number-one best-seller.) Time magazine queried: Has literary decency fallen so low? Perhaps they should have asked, Has literature ever been so witty, so provoking, so intriguing? Thirty years later Myra has become literature's most famous transsexual. After all, this is her/his/their age.

LC Classification NumberPS3543.I26M9 1987