Myra Breckinridge

Name: Myra Breckinridge
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gore Vidal
ISBN: 9781543696448

Author: Gore Vidal

Series: Myra and Myron #1

Narrator: Michelle Hendley, Camille Paglia

Unabridged: 6 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 05/21/2019

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Lgbtq+, Classic, Satire

Synopsis

The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award-winning United States. With a new introduction by Camille Paglia"I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she regards as the supreme achievements of Western culture; and a sacred mission to bring heteronormative civilization to its knees. Fifty years after its first publication unleashed gales of laughter, delight, and ferocious dissent ("Has literary decency fallen so low?" asked Time), Myra Breckinridge's moment to instruct and delight has once again arrived.

About Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on September 22, 2023

My mission: the destruction of the last vestigial traces of traditional manhood in the race in order to realign the sexes, thus reducing population while increasing human happiness and preparing for its next stage What the what? What was that again, Myra? What next stage? There is only the logic of a......more

Goodreads review by Zadignose on November 24, 2015

A short, depraved, outrageous farce that amuses and bemuses. Both funny and unsettling. Comedy and tragedy collide. Gore Vidal manages to pour scorn on everyone and everything, especially the culture of late 1960's Southern California and everything that went into making it what it was. The central c......more

Goodreads review by Kara on July 25, 2018

I'm going ahead and giving this little piece of madness 5 stars. Much of it is brilliant, hilarious, and bitchily delightful (I think I just created that adverb). A lot of it is also horrifying. Vidal takes the concept of the unreliable narrator to the next level in Myra. And there are things that s......more

Goodreads review by Vince on April 15, 2011

Reading any work by Gore Vidal, I am always amazed at how well it stands the test of time. Many of the references in Myra Breckinridge are dated (and certainly would have been at the time of its publication as well), and yet the themes of the story still ring eerily true today. Sexual politics, gend......more