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Its a fun addition to your cookbook collection and a great gift for the film lover with a sense of camp. The myra breckinridge cookbook howard austen, beverly pepper on. Myra breckinridge is a dish, and dont you ever forget it mtherfckers, as the children say nowadays. Edith head, a book i edited, cumin covered cock, and mae west. The sensuous kitchen exploring the myra breckinridge cookbook. Im not really interested in the recipes, but the book has some neat pictures of actors and actresses.
The sensuous kitchen exploring the myra breckinridge. Myra, claiming to be the widow of a film critic named myron breckinridge, installs herself in the chateau marmont scheming for property. Book is stamped from the library of gore vidal on the flyleaf. A mashup of the golden age of hollywood, recipes, and gore vidals myra breckinridge. Ebook myra breckinridge as pdf download portable document. Raquel welch on the set of myra breckenridge directed by michael same. Stimpson 1992 compares petronius and myra breckinridge and. Myra breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by gore vidal written in the form of a diary.
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Myra breckinridge, a transsexual played alternately by raquel welch. Gore vidals 1968 satirical novel myra breckinridge, now a camp masterpiece, was his personal favorite. Rarely does a cookbook post allow us to mention, in no particular order. Myra breckinridge by gore vidal goodreads share book. The recipes are even more flagrant in the early version. The myra breckinridge cookbook cookbook of the day. Published in 1968, gore vidals myra breckinridge was part political satire, part trans narrative and a huge bestseller.
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