Two Sisters

Name: Two Sisters
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gore Vidal
ISBN: 9781799751793

Author: Gore Vidal

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 10/06/2020

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Two Sisters is Gore Vidal’s fictional memoir of a love affair with a beautiful set of twins in post-war Paris—a story skilfully interwoven with notebooks, diaries and the vivid fragment of a screenplay set in ancient Greece. In seductive settings from a brothel in a Parisian backstreet to the rooftops of seventies Rome, Vidal assembles his characters, real and imagined: Cocteau and Tennessee Williams, Gide and Mailer rub shoulders with creations as unforgettable as the ageing femme fatale Marietta Donegal and Hollywood hustler and flagellant Murray Morris. All are bound together in a mesmerising fiction that builds to an extraordinary conclusion.

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 MJ

From yesterday’s gore to today’s Gore, this delightful novel cured the heartsickness I felt at a certain French bile-maker. An extremely playful formal experiment mingled with exquisite high-class prose, Two Sisters describes an act of incest through a script set in Ancient Greece, a notebook by the......more

Goodreads review by Esteva

Não é um 3 normal, é um 3 na escala de Gore Vidal, em que 5 corresponde a CRIAÇÃO e JULIANO, e 4 a KALKI. Um 3 de Gore Vidal é sempre um prazer.......more

Goodreads review by Charles

Though the structure of this book was initially confusing, it well rewarded my perseverance. Alternating between a writer's twenty year old journal, a film screenplay, and Vidal's current day (1969) thoughts and reflections on these (the author is a character in his own book), Two Sisters is a cleve......more

Goodreads review by Janie

I loved this book. I wrote a review a few years ago. I have to find it. p171: We discussed absent friends, applying to them the same high standards we knew they applied to us; none measured up.......more

Goodreads review by Tom

This novel is secretly one of Vidal's finest. Structurally it is his most daring experiment, but because of its brevity it and humor it makes no great demands on the reader. The novel switches between a present narrator who is a fictionalized version of Vidal himself, the contents of a diary/noteboo......more