Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years)

Kaufmann, Donald L.

ISBN 10: 0809303876 / ISBN 13: 9780809303878

Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1969

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Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years)
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809303876
• ISBN 13: 9780809303878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Literature Studies
  • Jewish-American Writers Studies

About this title

Synopsis

Donald L. Kaufmann, omitting much of the private drama of the man, has written the first objective evaluation of the writer. According to Mr. Kaufmann, Mailer has undergone a reverse in his views of violence and has discovered “justi­fiable violence.” Mr. Kaufmann here traces how this theory of violence develops in the fiction and how it ultimately relates to such current problems as the Negro struggle for power, the death of John F. Kennedy, and the question of capital punishment—all strong and pervasive themes in Mailer’s recent work.

About the Author

Donald L. Kaufmann is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida at Tampa.