The Apostate Angel: A Critical Study of Gore Vidal

by Bernard F. Dick

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203 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Bernard F. Dick is Professor of Communication and English and Co-Director of the School of Art and Media Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Teaneck, New Jersey, campus. He is the author of a number of books on film including The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film; Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood; Hal Wallis: Producer to the Stars; Forever Mame: Rosalind Russell; and She Walked in Beauty: Claudette Colbert. He has just completed a biography of Loretta Young, Hollywood Madonna.

Reviews

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am not a fan of criticism of the type that deconstructs books and explains the meaning behind what the writer wrote. However, this book was filled with Vidal the person, juxtaposed with his writing, showing how much of his own biography he incorporated into his works. It starts with his first book published at age 20 which brought him fame and covers many of his other books, screenplays, plays and essays. This is an unique book about a unique American icon. He is considered the American Montaigne for his essays, however he is known for his novels...none of which has been used in any school curriculum...despite the historical bent and best seller status of some of them. Actually, at least one school had Myra Breckenridge as part of its study which from any point of view is strange. I wonder if the day will come when any other of his books are part of a Literature course? He stands with Henry James and Edmund Wilson as titans of a century.

[Nathanael Booth · Rating 5 out of 5]

How is it that this book, written in the 1970s, is still the best study of GV out there?