Volume 25, Number 6 · April 20, 1978
Pensée Persons
By Clive James
Kalki
by Gore Vidal
Random House, 288 pp., $10.00
The narrator of Gore Vidal's new novel, Teddy Ottinger, is a surgically revamped bi-sexual beauty sharing many characteristics with one of his previous heroines. The hero she does most of her narrating about, James J. Kelly, a k a Kalki, has come to announce the end of the world. Not to put too fine a point on it, in Kalki Myra Breckenridge meets Messiah.
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