Duluth, by Vidal, Gore
Inventory #: 00361
Price: $5.00

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Duluth, by Vidal, Gore. Random House: New York, 1983. Edition: First Edition stated. ISBN: 0394527380. Hardcover, 214 pages. Blue cloth; metalic orange lettering on spine; author's initials debossed on front cover. Pictorial jacket design by Carol Wald.

Condition: Book: Near Fine. Very light bumping to spine ends; lower edge of front cover has beginnings of fading where bottom edge of jacket has begun to curl away from book.. Jacket: Very Good. Front flap has long crease; minor wear at spine ends and corners.

Contents: In an interview on November 15, 1991, Gore Vidal identified DULUTH, along with MYRA BRECKINRIDGE, as being among his favorites of the books he's written. He also classes them as similarly being about " . . . alternative worlds, comic and satiric, whatever word you want to use, the reverse of realism."

Later in the interview, he laments: DULUTH never really caught on because nobody knows about it. Perhaps they'll find out. There's no longer a grapevine for books. In the old days somebody would read a book and tell somebody else about it. It would be word of mouth. That's just sort of stopped.

On the other hand, the book jacket states simply: "DULUTH tears the lid off DALLAS."

That's all it says on the front flap. Apparently when you're famous like Gore Vidal, you don't need to entice your readers with any information about the book.

Hmmmm.