![]() In America, he is admired - and more highly valued than he likes to admit - for an unorthodox liberalism that puts individual preference at the heart of everything, from sex to tax. Blank."Ĭonversation at Vidal's table has a tendency to flow towards the state of the union, no matter what the source. It's just like the country that gave it to me. "It's two bronze cubes, my name is not on it, there's no identification of what it is. ![]() "It is the ugliest prize ever given to me," says the author, gesturing with a brandy snifter towards the room in which the unloved object stands. G ore Vidal's collected essays, United States, a hefty volume incorporating the work of four decades in the form in which he is a modern master, won the US National Book Award for 1993. ![]()
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