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Creation

by Gore Vidal

Creation
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23rd September 1993

Price: £14.99

Genre

Historical Fiction / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349104751

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Vidal’s historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book’s characters.

Reviews

GUARDIAN
Highly absorbing, rich in history, irony and erudition.
ANTHONY BURGESS
Our greatest living historical novelist.
OBSERVER
An historical novel of awesome scope and scholarship.
SUNDAY TIMES
Splendid, serene, magisterial.