Gore Vidal. First edition (stated), first printing. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Unclipped dust jacket has a mylar protective wrapper, designed by Sheridan Germann. No writing or markings in the book, 256 pp.
Vidal's novel, in the form of a fictional memoir, is of a love affair involving a beautiful set of twins in post-war Paris. Featuring notebooks, diaries, and vivid fragments reflective of the author's thoughts on love, sex, death, literature, and politics.
"Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual. His novel and essays interrogate social and sexual norms. His novels explore the nature of corruption in public life."
