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Book of the Week: Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal

Toby Jones

Jay Parini

Eileen Horne

Clive Brill

Book of the Week: Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal: Episode 3

Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal

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Lacklustre reviews of The City and The Pillar send Gore in retreat to Europe.

Despite commercial success, lacklustre reviews of The City and The Pillar send Gore in retreat to Europe where he meets Tennessee Williams - soon to become his great friend.

The authorised behind-the-scenes biography of one of America's great and most under-rated man of letters, the cosmopolitan and wickedly satirical Vidal, from a devoted yet candid old friend.

In Episode 3, despite commercial success, lacklustre reviews of The City and The Pillar send Gore in retreat to Europe where he meets Tennessee Williams - soon to become his great friend.

Written by Jay Parini
Read by Toby Jones
Abridged by Eileen Horne

Produced and directed by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4.

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By Jay Parini. Biography of the American writer and cultural commentator

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