{"title":"Gore Vidal","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sede-do-mal","title":"Seat of evil","description":"\"He gave me a strange, disjointed speech about life, our duty to ourselves, that the moment is all we have, and that it's dishonorable to deceive ourselves about it. I'm not sure he said anything very useful or very original, but there, sitting in the dark, listening, his words had a strange urgency for me, and I felt, in a way, that I was listening to an oracle.\" Gore Vidal was always active in politics. A spokesman for civil rights and minorities, he became known for addressing controversial issues such as homosexuality and anti-war. His bold themes for the time—post-World War II—established him as a critical mirror of the greatness and misery of the United States. No American writer had a life as eventful and brilliant as Gore. A literary great, his wit, humor, and contempt penetrate our blood and change our way of thinking. In *THIRST OF EVIL*, the author's only collection of short stories, never before published in Brazil, there are seven short stories about decadence and corruption. These texts reinforce the author's elegant, erudite, and eclectic style. In each of these stories, Gore Vidal's sharp perception emerges, portraying at times the decadent and materialistic reality of men in France, at times the vices of southern American society. Here, Gore Vidal's attention is seemingly focused on the individual and the everyday. But the attentive reader will glimpse in each narrative the mark of its time, \"the writer's unflattering view of American life from the postwar period onward,\" according to Marcos Soares, who adds: \"The 'evil' in the title has neither heroic nor demonic scope (...) Each character seems frozen in an eternal present, between a past that is gradually fading from memory and a future with no apparent exits or options.\" SEDE DO MAL is another title in the Sabor Literário Collection, launched in 2006 by Editora José Olympio to provide Brazilian readers with unpublished, forgotten, or unusual texts by great writers from around the world. The series is symbolized by a cherry, a term by which it has been affectionately nicknamed by readers. \"It's a delicate, charming icon,\" says Maria Amélia Mello, editorial director of José Olympio. \"It's like 'the cherry on the cake,' the special touch, the detail that makes the difference.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174838157564,"sku":"9788503009119","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/16dfdc0a89a3ca7e850af983f3a6e001_421f3aa2-19c0-4483-8eef-909fc61c53bb.jpg?v=1778320319"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/gore-vidal.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}