Norman Mailer : a double life / J. Michael Lennon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 947 pages, [22] unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1439150192 (cloth)
  • 9781439150191 (cloth)
  • 1439156204 (ebook)
  • 9781439156209 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3525.A4152 Z7358 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: the riptides of fame: June 1948 -- Long Branch and Brooklyn -- Harvard -- The Army -- Paris and Hollywood: prominent and empty -- The Deer Park -- General Marijuana and the navigator -- A felonious assault and An American dream -- Third person personal: Armies and after -- Politician to prisoner -- The turn to biography -- Death wishes: Gilmore and Abbott -- Pharaohs and tough guys -- An unfinished cathedral: Harlot's ghost -- A merry life and a married one -- Old freighter, uncertain sea.
Summary: An authorized biography of the provocative chronicler of the second half of the twentieth century that reflects Mailer's dual identities: journalist and activist, devoted family man and notorious philanderer, intellectual and fighter, writer and public figure, and Jew and atheist.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 907-914) and index.

An authorized biography of the provocative chronicler of the second half of the twentieth century that reflects Mailer's dual identities: journalist and activist, devoted family man and notorious philanderer, intellectual and fighter, writer and public figure, and Jew and atheist.

Prologue: the riptides of fame: June 1948 -- Long Branch and Brooklyn -- Harvard -- The Army -- Paris and Hollywood: prominent and empty -- The Deer Park -- General Marijuana and the navigator -- A felonious assault and An American dream -- Third person personal: Armies and after -- Politician to prisoner -- The turn to biography -- Death wishes: Gilmore and Abbott -- Pharaohs and tough guys -- An unfinished cathedral: Harlot's ghost -- A merry life and a married one -- Old freighter, uncertain sea.

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