Existential Errands (Signet E5422, First Paperback Edition, 1973)
Language: English
Published by Signet; New American Library, New York, 1973
- Softcover
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Very Good. Unmarked. First Thus, 1973. Signet; New American Library, New York. No. E5422. Paperback: covers lying flat; crease to spine, light edge and shelf wear, minor corner tip wear. Moderate even age tanning to covers, text block edges and interior pages. 316 pp. Twenty-eight essays, open letters, speeches and reviews written between 1966 and 1971, including Mailer's ringside account of the 1971 Ali-Frazier championship fight. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Existential Errands gathers Norman Mailer's cultural journalism and political commentary from the Vietnam War era and the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The collection runs to twenty-eight essays, open letters, speeches and critical reviews, and includes King of the Hill, his widely cited account of the 1971 Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier heavyweight championship bout, alongside pieces on the Apollo space missions, the women's liberation movement, the Black Power movement, bullfighting, independent cinema and contemporary literary figures. Arranged from selections written between 1966 and 1971, the compilation collects work originally commissioned by Life, Esquire, Partisan Review, Playboy and The New York Review of Books. The pieces demonstrate the participatory New Journalism method Mailer championed, merging autobiographical reportage w/ philosophical inquiry to document the moral, artistic and political tensions of late twentieth-century American life. Norman Mailer, 1923-2007, was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, journalist and co-founder of The Village Voice. Known for The Naked and the Dead and The Armies of the Night, he stood at the center of post-war American literature and the development of creative nonfiction. This Signet issue followed the 1972 Little, Brown and Company edition and carried the retrospective to a mass-market readership.…
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- Title
- Existential Errands (Signet E5422, First Paperback Edition, 1973)
- Author
- Norman Mailer
- Publisher
- Signet; New American Library, New York
- Publication year
- 1973
- Condition
- VERY GOOD
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0451054229
- ISBN 13
- 9780451054227
- Printing
- 1st printing
- Item weight
- 29 ounces
- Dimensions
- 7x1x5
- Seller catalogs
- Literature, Politics, Vintage Paperbacks
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