Description
Myra Breckinridge is Gore Vidal’s outrageous and sharply satirical novel about gender, sexuality, Hollywood and the cultural ideas that shape them. Myra arrives at Buck Loner’s Academy of Drama and Modeling as an instructor of Empathy and Posture, armed with an unwavering confidence in her own identity, a fascination with classic Hollywood cinema and a very particular mission.
First published in 1968, the novel caused considerable controversy with its provocative treatment of gender and sexuality, while its humour and irreverence have made it one of Vidal’s most distinctive works. Beneath the deliberately excessive surface, Myra Breckinridge takes aim at conventional ideas about sex, identity, power and American popular culture.
