Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307275011)

In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society where he has cut a wide swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and sometimes lost). From encounters with, amongst others, Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Francis Ford Coppola to the mournful passing of his longtime partner, Howard Auster, Vidal always steers his narrative with grace and flair. Entertaining, provocative, and often moving, Point to Point Navigation wonderfully captures the life of one of twentieth-century America's most important writers.

Author: Gore Vidal
ISBN-10: 0307275019
ISBN-13: 9780307275011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2007
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.28w x 0.59d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/04/2007 pg. 36