Duluth

Pop culture needs its own hallowers and it has found one in Gore Vidal. Duluth is a unhinged lampoon of all the tasteless clichés of pop culture brewing in the seething caldron of venomous mockery. ‘When I look about Duluth and see what they have created – massage parlors, adult book stores, a sympho......more

Another of Gore’s raucous entertainments. This anarchic semi-satirical, semi-surreal novel flirts with the metafictional (two decades after its heyday) and flings about a dozen different plots at the reader that all intersect in sometimes random and sometimes logical ways. I gave up looking for the......more

This is the most entertaining book that I have read for years. *Who will be the new mayor of Duluth? *What's inside the alien space-ship that has landed in the city? *Who is Big John? *And, will Chloris Craig, the author who cannot read or write, ever discover who killed Betty Grable? *And whose baby is......more

This was an absolute riot. Gore Vidal's satire takes no prisoners. All good satires should have this aim. Still relevant and not dated which is disturbing!......more

Po-mo Ronald Firbank! Very funny at times. "Rosemary has been unusually kind since the hallucination in the Bistro Garden. Edna's lines are now much longer that 'you mean dot dot question mark.' Rosemary has made a lot of interesting variations like 'For Heaven's sake, Silas, you can't mean that dot......more