Myra Breckinridge Summary
Gore Vidal

Myra Breckinridge Summary

M yra Breckinridge marked Vidal's return to the public eye at the center of a major controversy. This novel, delineating some fantastic consequences of a sex change operation, scandalized some readers, but it allowed Vidal to paint a strongly satirical portrait of American society. Myra Breckinridge shows, on the one hand, that the ideals of the American way of life are identical to those of the B movies of...

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