by Gore Vidal · Random House Inc · tapa dura · ISBN 9780394576596
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«Hollywood» is Gore Vidal's historical novel, published by Random House in hardback (437 pages, in English).
The novel follows Caroline Sanford, a Washington newspaper editor who reinvents herself in Hollywood as a producer and film star under the name Emma Traxler. Set in 1917, between the Great War and the birth of silent cinema, Vidal weaves Washington politics with the glamour of the nascent industry, featuring figures such as Chaplin, Fairbanks, and Roosevelt.
Fifth instalment of the Narratives of Empire series, also known as American Chronicle. Subtitle: «A Novel of America in the 1920s».
For readers of historical fiction and American political fiction, with an interest in the origins of Hollywood cinema.
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives, and later in 1982 to the United States Senate.
