Norman Mailer: A Double Life

Norman Mailer: A Double Life

The â€œgloriousâ€¦sweeping, full-scale biographyâ€ of Norman Mailer, the famous novelist, journalist, and public figure: â€œThereâ€™s not a paragraph in this enormous book that doesnâ€™t contain a nugget of something youâ€¦wish you had knownâ€ (The New York Times).

Norman Mailer was one of the giants of American letters, and one of the most celebrated public figures of his time. He was a novelist, journalist, biographer, and filmmaker; a provocateur and passionate observer of his times; and a husband, father, and serial philanderer.

Perhaps nothing characterized Mailer more than his ambition. He wanted not merely to be the greatest writer of his generation, but a writer great enough to be compared to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. As Michael Lennon describes, although he considered himself first and foremost a novelist, his greatest literary contribution may have been in journalism, where he used his novelistic gifts to explore the American psyche. He would return to certain subjects obsessively: John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, sex, technology, and the intricate relationship of fame and identity. Lennon captures Mailer in all his sharp complexities and shows us how he self-consciously invented and re-invented himself throughout his lifetime.

Michael Lennon knew Mailer for thirty-five years, and in this definitive biography, he had the cooperation of Mailerâ€™s late widow, Norris Church, his ex-wives, and all of his children, as well as his sister, Barbara. He also had access to Mailerâ€™s vast, unpublished correspondence and papers, and he interviewed dozens of people who knew Mailer. In Norman Mailer: A Double Life he â€œbrings Mailer thoroughly alive in this great wallop of a bookâ€¦and he captures the entirety of a man who embodied his era like no otherâ€ (The Washington Post).
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781439150214
ReleaseDate 2014-10-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781439150214

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781439150214
ReleaseDate	2014-10-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781439150214

Norman Mailer: A Double Life

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