The Last Word
Books, correspondence, awards, art and furnishings from Hollywood Hills and La Rondinaia in Ravello.
A writer's estate is unlike any other. The furniture can be catalogued in an afternoon. The library takes longer, because a library is a record of a mind at work — what was read, what was kept, what was written in the margin and never meant to be seen.
Property from Gore Vidal came to Abell from two houses: the Hollywood Hills, and La Rondinaia, the cliffside villa in Ravello where he wrote for more than three decades.
Books, correspondence, awards, art and furnishings. Between them, the working life of one of the most quoted American writers of the twentieth century — and the two very different places he chose to do it in.
Every collection has a story.
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