Mailer: A BiographyUndeniably one of the most controversial figures of past half century, Norman Mailer has also been one of the most influential. Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, once a candidate for mayor of New York City, and the author of thirty-one books, he has both made the news and commented on it with an originality that has permanently altered America's literary landscape. From the peace rallies of the sixties that lead to The Armies of the Night, to the coverage of the "sex wars" in The Prisoner of Sex, to the study of violence and punishment in The Executioner's Song, Mailer has observed our culture with unmatched insight -- and shaped it as well. Mary Dearborn had unprecedented access to Mailer's friends, relations, and antagonists. With photographs and correspondence never before published, her biography fills in the familiar outlines of his colorful personal life -- the wives and mistresses, the brawls and arrests -- and charts Mailer's brilliant successes and notorious failures. Acclaimed for her biographies of Henry Miller and Louise Bryant, Dearborn comes to her subject uniquely sensitive to Mailer's best and worst sides. Her account is the most clearheaded and balanced evaluation to date. As splendidly told by Mary Dearborn, Mailer's story is, for good or ill, the story of our times. |
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... success . He found success even more difficult than failure , he wrote to Fig Gwaltney about this time . It was a subject he knew well . A rather charming vignette from Norman's Hollywood days told by Shelley Winters indicates how thor ...
... success . He found success even more difficult than failure , he wrote to Fig Gwaltney about this time . It was a subject he knew well . A rather charming vignette from Norman's Hollywood days told by Shelley Winters indicates how thor ...
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... success of his first novel , the Brooklyn kid with a Harvard degree was living out his own version of the great American success story . An overnight sensation , nurtured on the ideal of literary celebrity that marked the lives of the ...
... success of his first novel , the Brooklyn kid with a Harvard degree was living out his own version of the great American success story . An overnight sensation , nurtured on the ideal of literary celebrity that marked the lives of the ...
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... success had replaced sex as the object of desire : Podhoretz had , after all , used Mailer's career as a bouncing - off point for his thoughts on success ; like Podhoretz , Mailer was a Jewish boy from Brooklyn by way of the Ivy League ...
... success had replaced sex as the object of desire : Podhoretz had , after all , used Mailer's career as a bouncing - off point for his thoughts on success ; like Podhoretz , Mailer was a Jewish boy from Brooklyn by way of the Ivy League ...
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COCK OF THE WALK | 1 |
THE ARMY | 36 |
POLITICS AND HOLLYWOOD | 65 |
Copyright | |
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