Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge

Description:

No one remains untouched by the luscious Myra Breckinridge's quest for Hollywood fame. Her job teaching Empathy and Posture at the Academy of Drama and Modeling gives her the perfect opportunity to vamp, scheme, and seduce her way into the undiscovered lives and passions of others - while trying to keep a few secrets of her own. In the sequel, Myron, the Breckinridge saga takes an increasingly bizarre turn. Myron seems to be an inconspicuous man with a sweet wife and a Chinese catering business, and Myra - still determined to become a megastar - wages an outrageous battle for hormonal supremacy over the body she shares with Myron. Gore Vidal leads us through the movie-star world of the fabulous forties as Myra attempts to alter cinema history.

subjects: Fiction,  Satire,  Transsexuals,  American literature,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall,  FICTION / Satire,  FICTION / Classics,  Gender transition in literature,  Transexuales,  Novela,  Male-to-female transsexuals,  Motion picture industry

Places: Hollywood,  U.S.A.

Times: 1960s