Panther Books, London, 1969. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. . . "A genuinely, brutally witty book, a parody on Hollywood, pop intellectualism, pornography and just about anything else you could name" -- New York Times First softcover edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 224 pages. The book is a secondhand book with reading creases to the spine, and darkening of the page edges, but is otherwise clean, and free of annotation. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0586029222. ISBN/EAN: 9780586029220. Inventory No: 0244518. . 9780586029220

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Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary. It was made into a movie in 1970. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s," the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant sexual practices, as filtered through an aggressively camp sensibility.

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Bookseller: Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0244518
Title: Myra Breckinridge
Author: Vidal, Gore
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: reprint
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0586029222
ISBN 13: 9780586029220
Publisher: Panther Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1969
Keywords: BZDB2 literature gender America army Literature & Literary; Unbranded ISBN: 0586029222 EAN: 9780586029220 Vidal, Gore Myra Breckinridge

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General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online

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