Tough Guy

The Life of Norman Mailer

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Beschreibung

<p><b>The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.</b><br><br>Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for <i>The Armies of the Night </i>and again in 1980 for <i>The Executioner's Song</i>, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.<br><br><i>The Naked and the Dead</i> was acclaimed not so much for its intrinsic qualities but rather because it launched a brutally realistic sub-genre of military fiction - <i>Catch 22</i> and <i>MASH</i> would not exist without it. Richard Bradford combs through Mailer's personal letters - to lovers and editors - which appear to be a rehearsal for his career as a shifty literary narcissist, and which shape the characters of one of the most widely celebrated World War II novels.<br><br>Bradford strikes again with a merciless biography in which diary entries, journal extracts and newspaper columns set the tone of this study of a controversial figure. From friendships with contemporaries such as James Baldwin, failed correspondences with Hemingway and the Kennedys, to terrible - but justified - criticism of his work by William Faulkner and Eleanor Roosevelt, this book gives a unique, snappy and convincing perspective of Mailer's ferocious personality and writings.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781448218141

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

241 x 162 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury USA