Washington, D.C. (novel)
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Washington, D.C. is a 1967 novel by
historical novels (although the first one published), it begins in 1937 and continues into the Cold War
, tracing the families of Senator James Burden Day and influential newspaper publisher Blaise Sanford.
This book is the least historical and most novelistic of any of the seven books. The seventh book in the series,
The Golden Age
, takes place during nearly the same span of years with many of the same characters and needed to be written around the events of Washington, D.C.
The novel is written in the
third person and is inspired by the novels of Henry James.[1]
References
- ^ Clarke, Gerald (6 December 1974). "Gore Vidal, The Art of Fiction No. 50 (Interview)". www.theparisreview.org. Vol. Fall 1974, no. 59. The Paris Review Foundation.
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