Who pushed Myron Breckinridge through

his television screen and onto the set of Siren o[

Babylon? Who is the mysterious Mr. Williams?

And who is the mad cook Whittaker Kaiser, or

Maude the mischievous hair bender? Who

wants to stop history in its tracks so as to pre-

serve permanently the world of Louis B.Mayer

and Andy Hardy? And who wants to alter thc

male sex so as to save the world from overpopu-

lation? Who and what is Myron?

The answers are in Gore Vidal s spectacular

new novel, which celebrates the return of Myra

Breckinridge--more passionate, more creative,

more outrageous than ever.

Myra Breckinridge was acclaimed "a master-

piece" by the English critic Brigid Brophy and

"a moral masterpiece" by the Sunday Times of

London. John Leonard, in The New York

Times Book Review, called it "one of the best

novels in recent years."