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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Gardners Books
Publication date April 22, 1993
Pages 448
Binding Paperback
Edition New
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780349103655
ISBN-10 0349103658
Dimensions 1.25 by 5 by 7.50 in.
Weight 0.75 lbs.
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $18.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Gore Vidal's two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Myra Breckinridge arrives in Hollywood intending to prove that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies - and survive. And in 'Myron' she returns to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: It is a risky (and risque) business becoming 'Woman Triumphant' - exercising total power over men like Rusty Godowski. Rusty just wants to be a Hollywood star like everyone else at Buck Loner's academy, but now that Buck's niece, Myra Breckinridge, has arrived, the curriculum is taking a wildly strange turn. Willing to risk all to be superb and unique, Myra means to prove to her old friend Dr Montag that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies - and survive. 'From Myra's fist appearnce on the page she was a megastar', explains her creator, Gore Vidal. Myra caused a second furore when she returned in Myron to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego, a drab little man fallen into marriage and a job in Chinese catering. Theirs is a contest of hormonal roulette, with glorious Myra off on time-travelling missions of mercy back to 1948 to try to change cinema history and to introduce her own radical theories of popuation control. Meanwhile Myron tries desperately to stay in the present as inconspicuously as Mrya will allow.

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Paperback
Book cover for 9780349103655 Book cover for 9788497939331
 
Italian edition edition from Debolsillo (March 30, 2006)
9788497939331 | details & prices | 257 pages | 5.00 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $12.95
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New edition from Gardners Books (April 22, 1993)
9780349103655 | details & prices | 448 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $18.00
About: Gore Vidal's two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author.

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