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Duluth is a 1983 novel by Gore Vidal. He considered it one of his best works, [1] as did Italo Calvino, who wrote, "Vidal's development...along that line from Myra Breckinridge to Duluth, is crowned with great success, not only for the density of comic effects, each one filled with meaning, not only for the craftsmanship in ...
- 214 pp (first edition hardcover)
- Gore Vidal
- 1983
- Random House
12 mag 1983 · Gore Vidal. 3.56. 803 ratings77 reviews. Perhaps Vidal's most outrageous novel, this is an indescribable fantasy purportedly set in the city of Duluth (which, however, is near the Mexican border) & involving a tv show also named "Duluth" (a parody of "Dallas"), a spaceship that has landed nearby, the antics of a policewoman, Darlene ...
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In any case, the middle American way of life is the subject of "Duluth," a novel set in a city you will not find on any map. The city of Duluth in "Duluth" is bounded on one side by picturesque Mexico. On a clear day you can see the Pacific Ocean, 20 miles to the north. On a clear night you can see the "lights of the aurora borealis fill the ...
When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in 'Duluth', the popular television series and the one called Beryl finds herself in a 'Hyatt Regency' romantic novel entitled ROGUE DUKE. In Duluth they do it all with word processors. Meanwhile Lieutenant
Duluth is a 1983 novel by Gore Vidal. He considered it one of his best works, as did Italo Calvino, who wrote, "Vidal's development...along that line from Myra Breckinridge to Duluth, is crowned with great success, not only for the density of comic effects, each one filled with meaning, not only for the craftsmanship in construction, put ...
It isn't even his Duluth; it belongs to Rosemary Klein Kantor, the Wurlitzer-Prize winner (sounds like ''Pulitzer Prize'' if slurred) who, according to the law of fictive relativity and its corollary, the simultaneity effect, is able to create at the same time the novel ''Duluth,'' a TV serial ''Duluth'' and romances set in the Regency-Hyatt era of the Napoleonic wars, all because she hunts ...
Duluth is one of his `comic novels' and he endeavors to be abstruse. The setting is an impossible city named Duluth located between the Michigan and the Mexican border, with a absurd motto proclaimed in neon on its tallest building: ''Love it or loathe it, you can never leave it or lose it.''
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