Product Description

When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in 'Duluth', the popular television series and the one called Beryl finds herself in a 'Hyatt Regency' romantic novel entitled ROGUE DUKE. In Duluth they do it all with word processors. Meanwhile Lieutenant Darlene Ecks, strip-search enthusiast, terrorizes a barrio full of illegal Mexican immigrants until they rise up in defiance, the mayor plumbs the mysteries of a bright red spaceship and a life and death contest is waged between Duluth's leading socialite and its foremost author to complete contradictory biographies of Betty Grable. Gore Vidal's wicked extravaganza sports special effects not expected in a novel; and it poses taunting puzzles like who is the guy they call The Dude? And why is it said, 'Every society gets the Duluth it deserves'?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #272042 in Books
• Published on: 1993-04-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
'Falling somewhere between the realms of Henry Adams and all of Monty Python, Gore Vidal has for many years served as America's own Tiresias' Jay McInerney 'Absolutely unique ... Vidal is a master' Italo Calvino 'One of the most brilliant, most radical and most subversive pieces of writing to merege from America in recent years' New Statesman

About the Author
Gore Vidal is one of the greatest living American novelists and essayists. He has written numerous Hollywood screenplays, including BEN HUR, and ran as a Democratic candidate for Congress. He appeared with Tim Robbins in the film BOB ROBERTS and most recently in Gattaca (1998).

Customer Reviews

just close your eyes and read it!
Completely mad, crazy, non-PC.......just brilliant, precise, observed clear writing. Couldn't put it down. Laughed out loud.....bought copies for friends (will they stay friends though when they find I find this funny?) Just read it and go with it .......don't say "this is a bit weird" - of course it is ! So is life!!!!

Vidal's genius
To say that Gore Vidal's imagination is expansive is an understatement! This book is imaginative as it is amusing, and as satirical as he can be.

An extraordinary and magical book
Possibly Gore Vidals best novel, Duluth is a place and a TV show though they are not the same, though die in Duluth the place and you could well find yourself staring in the TV series, or worse still in one of Rosemary Kelin-Kantor's Hyatt Regency England novels.

Duluth is all of the US - it sits by the Great Lakes and the barrios if Mexico and is a clever and witty commentary on the police, racial attitudes, television and literary pretentiousness.

Always engrossing, funny, surreal and never loses the plot despite the many and varied strands woven through it.

Overall this is a marvellous book.