The definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman Mailer
From his early ''A Credo for the Living'', published in 1948, when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year before his death, Mailer wrestled with the big themes of his timesHe was one of the most astute cultural commentators of the postwar era, a swashbuckling intellectual provocateur who never pulled a punch and was rarely anything less than interesting. Mind of an Outlaw spans the full arc of Mailer''s evolution as a writer, including such essential pieces as his acclaimed 1957 meditation on hipsters, ''The White Negro''; multiple selections from his wonderful Advertisements for Myself; and a never-before-published essay on Freud The book is introduced by Jonathan Lethem.
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
656 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Penguin Books Ltd |
Utgivningsdatum |
2014-06-05 |
ISBN |
9780141394985 |