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Palimpsest by Gore Vidal (1995-09-28)

Gore Vidal

"I am not my own subject," Gore Vidal used to say. But now, surprisingly, he has turned his wit and elegant storytelling gifts to a candid memoir of the first forty years of his life. Palimpsest is written from the vantage point of Vidal's library in his villa on the Italian coast. As visitors come...

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He mentioned reading it recently and found it hilarious, Rrated, and a vivid memoir of Washington D.C.

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Palimpsest by Gore Vidal. Came out a while ago. I just read it recently. It's hilarious, totally Rrated and often inappropriate and very vicious, a memoir of D.C. as I've read.

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He mentioned reading it recently and found it hilarious, Rrated, and a vivid memoir of Washington D.C.

"

Palimpsest by Gore Vidal. Came out a while ago. I just read it recently. It's hilarious, totally Rrated and often inappropriate and very vicious, a memoir of D.C. as I've read.

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