Mailer: His Life and Times - Softcover

Manso, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416562869 ISBN 13: 9781416562863

Publisher: Washington Square Press, 2008

Synopsis

THE DEFINITIVE, AUTHORIZED ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN ICON The winner of every major national literary award, the preeminent novelist of his generation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a movie director, politician, pugilist, antiwar activist, hipster, philosopher, and enfant terrible, Norman Mailer has been maligned, loved, hated, belittled, idolized - but never ignored. This sweeping biography captures the legend's extraordinary life and career in his own fascinating words and in vivid accounts by his famous peers, friends, enemies, wives, lovers, and family members. Mailer is an extraordinary tapestry, a portrait of an era as well as a man - as protean as the subject himself and just as overflowing with life.

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About the Author

Peter Manso is the author of the definitive biography of Marlon Brando, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Paris Match.

Review

"Try dipping into Mr. Manso's interviews without at once becoming addicted....You can't." -- The New York Times

"Manso's exhaustive, kiss-and-tell biography seems fitting for a man of such caprice and profligacy, his work defined by excess and brilliance at once." -- The Boston Globe

"The book is grand gossip, a sort of portable Hamptons, Everyman's own private literary soirée." -- Time

"A rare and unprecedented document." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Frank, detailed, outspoken, funny, horrifying, fascinating, ludicrous, awesome, irreverent, brave, hypnotic, petty, dramatic, adroit, and unseemly -- a whirlwig of ambition, passion, and disaster....It will make you forget your troubles." -- The Village Voice

About this edition

• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416562869
• ISBN 13: 9781416562863
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 768