Posted on 11/11/06
Valedictory Vidal
Point to Point NavigationBy Gore VidalDoubleday, 265 pages, $32Moving "graciously, I hope, toward the door marked Exit," as Gore Vidal describes himself on the opening page of Point to Point Navigation, he's nonetheless found time to put his massive literary house in order. Earlier this year saw the publication of Clouds and Eclipses, his collected short stories, and now, with this memoir, we have, at last, the sequel to 1995's excellent Palimpsest. It's not nearly as well written as its predecessor -- in many ways, it isn't even strictly a memoir -- but it is almost as enjoyable. As perhaps the final brick to be added to chez Vidal, it's not an entirely inappropriate concluding act.
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