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"Gore Vidal was a good friend for over sixty years. If you
want to know who Gore really was, read In Bed with
Gore Vidal, which uncovers, and evokes, his complicated
private...
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"Gore Vidal was a good friend for over sixty years. If you want to
know who Gore really was, read In Bed with Gore Vidal, which
uncovers, and evokes, his complicated private life and how that
influenced and shaped his wider life, politics, and work. Lost
loves, sex with hustlers, a life with Howard Austen, his
relationships with women and the truth about his sexuality: this is
a juicy, intelligent and honest portrait of a dear friend and
exceptional writer and man."-Scotty Bowers, author of Full Service:
My Adventures in Hollywood and The Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
Gore Vidal claimed there was no such thing as "gay," only gay
sexual acts. But what was the truth about his sex life and
sexuality-and how did it affect and influence his writing and
public life? In In Bed With Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and
the Private World of an American Master, Tim Teeman interviews many
of Vidal's closest family and friends, including Claire Bloom and
Susan Sarandon, as well as surveying Vidal's own rich personal
archive, to build a rounded portrait of who this lion of American
letters really was away from the page. Here, revealed for the first
time, Teeman discovers the Hollywood stars Vidal slept with and the
reality of his life with partner Howard Austen-and the hustlers
they both enjoyed. Was Gore's true love really a boy from prep
school? Was he really, as he said, bisexual, and if so how close
did he really get to marrying women, including Claire Bloom and
Joanne Woodward? And if Vidal really was gay, why did he not want
to say so? Did his own sex secrets underpin a legal fight with
adversary William F. Buckley, still being played out after his
death? Much as he fought against being categorized, Vidal, Teeman
shows, also proved himself to be a pugnacious advocate for gay
sexual freedom. Teeman also, for the first time, vividly and
movingly evokes the last painful and tragic years of Vidal's life
and the bitter, contentious legacy he has left behind. "Tim
Teeman's biography of Gore Vidal is the perfect combination of racy
gossip-from steamy celebrity liaisons to hustlers in Rome-and
penetrating analysis. It shows how a complicated attitude to sex
and sexuality shaped an author's life and work. An original,
intriguing, and necessary portrait of an American icon." - Edmund
White, author of City Boy "Sex with hustlers and Hollywood
stars-for all his insistence that sexuality did not define him,
Gore Vidal sure got around. And while he didn't hit the streets
with placards, he was still, in many ways, a gay rights
revolutionary. Tim Teeman's biography, full of new material and
interviews, reveals how Vidal's sexuality and sex life influenced
his life and his work - and tells, for the first time, the moving
story of his painful last years. With deftness, wit, intelligence,
and a journalist's nose for a good story, Teeman pulls back the
curtain on an American icon. It seems Gore Vidal can still surprise
us. What a page-turner!" -William J. Mann, author of Kate: The
Woman Who Was Hepburn and Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra
Streisand About the Author: Tim Teeman is a journalist and
broadcaster. For fourteen years he has worked as an editor, feature
writer, and interviewer for The Times of London, most recently as
their US Correspondent, in which he covered stories like Hurricane
Sandy and profiled many celebrities and public figures including
Woody Allen, George Clooney, and Liza Minnelli. He has also
contributed to publications including Elle, The New Statesman, The
Guardian, The Independent, Independent on Sunday, Attitude, and
Time Out. In Bed With Gore Vidal is his first book. He lives in New
York City.
