Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer

ISBN-13: 9781448218141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str.

Richard (University of Ulster UK) Bradford

Opis

The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.

Recenzje

Bradford offers a solid sense that Mailer could be unpleasant. Publishers Weekly

Spis treści

Abbreviations and ReferencingAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Brooklyn Boy2. Odd Man Out3. Pacific Grim4. Waiting For Fame5. Back Home6. The Deer Park7. Norman Mailer: The Death of the Novel8. 'The White Negro'9. How Not To Murder Your Wife10. Time For Something Different?11. Apocalypse Now12. Politics and the Women13. The Biographer's Song14. Pharaohs and Tough Guys15. A Clandestine World Revealed16. Retirement: With Picasso, Oswald, Christ and HitlerBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon, France. He has published over thirty widely acclaimed books, including biographies of Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe, Kingsley Amis, George Orwell and a controversial portraiture of Patricia Highsmith. Bradford has written for The Spectator and The Sunday Times and has appeared on the Channel 4 series In Their Own Words: British Novelists.