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Creation

Contributor(s): Vidal, Gore (Author), Burgess, Anthony (Foreword by)

ISBN: 9780375727054

Publisher: Vintage

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Pub Date: August 27, 2002

Dewey: FIC

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Maps, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.29" H x 7.90" L x 5.34" W ( 1.10 lbs) 592 pages

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Fiction | Historical | General | Literary | Religious

Series: Vintage International

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Description: The incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history--this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C.--and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights and piercing observations. Includes a new Preface by the author.

Review Quotes: "An incredibly detailed and convincing picture of the ancient world." -Anthony Burgess

"Brilliantly realized. . . . Fertile, vivid, and ingenious. . . . [A] surging river of a book." -Mary Renault, The New York Review of Books

"His best novel. . . . There isn't a page of Creation that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight" -The New York Times

"Highly literate, stylish, entertaining and provocative." -The Wall Street Journal

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