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Matters of Fact and of Fiction

Name: Matters of Fact and of Fiction
ISBN: 0394411285

The outspoken novelist and critic trains his sometimes controversial sights on present-day fiction, writers of note or notoriety, and fashionable literary attitudes and on historical and political topics of current interest

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“In any case, rather like priests who have forgotten the meaning of the prayers they chant, we shall go on for quite a long time talking of books and writing books, pretending all the while not to notice that the church is empty and the parishioners have gone elsewhere to attend other gods, perhaps i…”

— Gore Vidal, amazon.com

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