Waking slow

MEWSHAW, Michael

Literature & Fiction

Constable

Blending high-caliber sports writing with penetrating investigative reporting, this account explores the glamorous, gritty, and money-ruled world of professional tennis

Short Circuit

Penguin??Books

Ladies Of The Court : Grace & Disgrace on the Women's Tennis Tour

Sports & Outdoors

Racket Sports

Crown, Publishers

The Toll

Contemporary

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know Detached and ironic; a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting quip; enigmatic, impossible to truly know: This is the calcified, public image of Gore Vidal―one the man himself was fond of reinforcing. "I'm exactly as I appear," he once said of himself. "There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water." Michael Mewshaw's Sympathy for the Devil, a memoir of his friendship with the stubbornly iconoclastic public intellectual, is a welcome corrective to this tired received wisdom. A complex, nuanced portrait emerges in these pages―and while "Gore" can indeed be brusque, standoffish, even cruel, Mewshaw also catches him in more vulnerable moments. The Gore Vidal the reader comes to know here is generous and supportive to younger, less successful writers; he is also, especially toward the end of his life, disappointed, even lonely. Sparkling, often hilarious, and filled with spicy anecdotes about expat life in Italy, Sympathy for the Devil is an irresistible inside account of a man who was himself―faults and all―impossible to resist. As enlightening as it is entertaining, it offers a unique look at a figure many only think they know.

Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Detached and ironic; a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting quip; enigmatic, impossible to truly know: this is the calcified public image of Gore Vidal--one the man himself was fond of reinforcing. "I'm exactly as I appear," he once said of himself. "There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water."
Michael Mewshaw's Sympathy for the Devil, a memoir of his friendship with the stubbornly iconoclastic public intellectual, is a welcome corrective to this tired received wisdom. A complex, nuanced portrait emerges in these pages--and while "Gore" can indeed be brusque, standoffish, even cruel, Mewshaw also catches him in more vulnerable moments. The Gore Vidal the reader comes to know here is generous and supportive to younger, less successful writers; he is also, especially toward the end of his life, disappointed, even lonely.
Sparkling, often hilarious, and filled with spicy anecdotes about expat life in Italy, Sympathy for the Devil is an irresistible inside account of a man who was himself--faults and all--impossible to resist. As enlightening as it is entertaining, it offers a unique look at a figure many only think they know.

Avon/Hearst

Life for Death

Avon/Books

Spine has a piece out of the top side edge and cover has a tear in same area. Cover has slight soiling and a few tear. Price on inside front page and page "215" has a dog-ear. Intact and good copy for 1st edition "1980". Ships very quickly and packaged carefully!

Life for Death: A True Story of Crime and Punishment

DOUBLEDAY COMPANY

Waking Slow

Random House]

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