Norman Mailer : a double life /
J. Michael Lennon.
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- 947 pages, [22] unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 907-914) and index.
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.
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.