Bibliograph

The selected letters of Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon

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The selected letters of Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 833-838) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The selected letters of Norman Mailer

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

896822150

Responsibility statement

edited by J. Michael Lennon

Summary

"Mailer wrote almost 50,000 letters over the course of his life, keeping a copy of almost every one of them. He corresponded with presidents and politicians, artists and athletes, writers and editors, students, antagonists, fans, friends, his children, his loves, including his beloved sixth wife, Norris Church Mailer. Here are the letters of a precocious sixteen-year-old arriving from Brooklyn at Harvard. Here are the letters depicting the horrors of the war in the Pacific from a soldier's point of view. Here are the letters describing a young writer's struggle with his first novel, a manuscript that would become The Naked and the Dead. And here are the many, many letters of a man who spent sixty years in the spotlight. Read together, they form an autobiographical portrait of Norman Mailer"--, Provided by publisher

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