Mailer: His Life and TimesPeter Manso THE DEFINITIVE, AUTHORIZED ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN ICON The winner of every major national literary award, the preeminent novelist of his generation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a movie director, politician, pugilist, antiwar activist, hipster, philosopher, and enfant terrible, Norman Mailer has been maligned, loved, hated, belittled, idolized -- but never ignored. This sweeping biography captures the legend's extraordinary life and career in his own fascinating words and in vivid accounts by his famous peers, friends, enemies, wives, lovers, and family members. Mailer is an extraordinary tapestry, a portrait of an era as well as a man -- as protean as the subject himself and just as overflowing with life. |
Contents
Brooklyn 192339 | 11 |
Harvard 193943 | 43 |
The Army Paris The Naked and the Dead | 74 |
Hollywood Politics and Barbary Shore | 122 |
Greenwich Village and The Deer Park 195155 | 161 |
The Village Voice 195556 | 219 |
The Hip and the Square Advertisements | 232 |
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