Palimpsest: A Memoir (Vintage International) Style:Paperback and obsession will make even

and obsession will make even the most open-hearted reader question how safe it is to trust the people they love

While he has never shied away from the spotlight

Steph Harper is on the run

It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships

Palimpsest: A Memoir (Vintage International) Style:Paperback and obsession will make evenVidal on Vidala great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject. A New York Times best American memoir In the hands of Gore Vidal, a pen is a sword. And he points it at the high and mighty who have crossed his path. Los Angeles Times Palimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty nine years of his life as a novelist, dramatist, critic, political activist and candidate, screenwriter, television commentator,