”īlaise was bewildered he was also angry that Clay chose not to confide in him. The exceptions are several shockingly lazy sentences which stand out for there ability to jar you right out of the book through ham-handed exposition which Vidal usually handles in a more subtle way. Vidal’s prose is for the most part flawless, or at least whatever flaws exist are beyond my ability to detect them. The plot, such as it is, involves a lobbiest offering the senator a bribe, the senators aid spurning the senators daughter in favor of the newspapers suns sister, and the looming world war. The novel begins in 1937 and ends in 1950. We are also introduced to the senators morally bankrupt aid, who will do whatever it takes to win a congressional seat, the senator’s daughter, who is in love with the aid, a rich aimless sun of a newspaper publisher, and his sister, who opens the novel by fucking the aid in a pool house. introduces us to an elderly senator, concerned with philosophy, morality, and, incongruously, winning his next election. The novel is billed as a political novel, and this is where I find issue. Then I read Washington D.C., his fifth in a series of six novels chronicling American Political history.
Gore Vidal, for example, I’d put off as too literary until he died last week. I’ve fallen into the habit of reading authors who have recently died.
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