TY - ABST T1 - Duluth Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gore Vidal (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous, rather surrealistic dystopia, which ends with an insect writing a new story of Duluth. None of the stories have any relation to the real Duluth, Minnesota, which is described on the back endpaper. Vidal's Duluth is a corrupt city with a deep division between the rich and the poor, which includes a large Spanish-speaking barrio.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Messiah Y1 - 1954 A1 - Gore Vidal (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which the religion, which has no belief in god or an afterlife, preaches that life is not worth living. The Messiah, a mortician, says that it is good to die and gains millions of followers. The history of the movement is told by one of its first supporters.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1954. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1955. 256 pp. Rpt. London: Panther, 1977. Rev. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1965. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979; which is rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an “Introduction” by Elizabeth A. Lynn (v-xvi).

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