Myra Breckinridge
by Gore Vidal (1968)
Saying the only good thing to come out of 1968 was a man-hating transsexual is suspect at best. But it’s oh so true. Twenty years after The City and the Pillar (1948) outed him and ‘ruined’ his career, iconoclast Gore Vidal proved he was a talent whom – to quote his anti-heroine – ‘no man will ever possess.’
Myra and Myron – the man with whom she shares a body – embark on a diary-documented crusade to forever alter American notions of gender, film and politics. This they do to the score of Gore’s emphatically elegant prose. Here is a long unsung masterwork.
Good Introduction
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