{"product_id":"live-from-golgotha-by-gore-vidal","title":"'Live from Golgotha' by Gore Vidal","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"37\" data-end=\"348\"\u003eA time-travelling TV crew is sent back to first-century Judea to broadcast the crucifixion live.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"37\" data-end=\"348\"\u003eAs competing versions of Christ, authorship, and belief collide, the novel turns into a controlled farce about who gets to write history and why anyone believes it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"350\" data-end=\"828\"\u003eWritten in the early 1990s, this sits squarely in \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eGore Vidal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’s late period, when he’d fully sharpened his taste for dismantling American mythologies and Western canon more broadly. Vidal isn’t subtle about it; he treats religion, media, and empire as overlapping fictions, each maintained by performance and repetition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"830\" data-end=\"1108\"\u003eGenre-wise, it drifts between satirical fiction, speculative history, and theological parody. Think less “alternate history” and more “history as something that was always up for negotiation.” It’s irreverent, cleanly written, and deliberately provocative without being chaotic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1123\" data-end=\"1211\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback, Abacus (1993). Good condition—general wear to covers, pages clean and intact.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44531075350611,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext_16.png?v=1777164481","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/live-from-golgotha-by-gore-vidal","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}