Norman Mailer: The 1960s Collection ;: A Library of America Boxed Set (The Library of America) - Hardcover

Mailer, Norman; Lennon, J. Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598535579 ISBN 13: 9781598535570

Publisher: Library Of America, 2018

Synopsis

No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set, are two novels, two booklength masterpieces of new journalism, and thirty-three essays.

About this title

Review:

"Mailer is missed. . . . His gifts of observation and imagination [are] splendid armor for our own time." --David Denby, Harper's Magazine

"The fearlessly original Mailer is . . . more vital than ever. . . . If you really want to know What Happened, this collection of 50-year-old works has more to say than anything published in the past 12 months." -Ash Carter, Esquire

"Mailer's catalogue of the schizophrenic hypocrisies in American life--our warring internal dualisms--that brought us to such a pass seem still entrenched in our political psyche. One can't help thinking that dissenting young people today, who might come upon this book as a historical curiosity or reading assignment, will be surprised to find a startlingly familiar nation at war with itself." --Robert J. Begiebing, The Mailer Review

"His biographer J. Michael Lennon and the LOA selected the contents brilliantly."
-- Buffalo News

"Norman Mailer is best binge-read as an orgy of big ideas, long, loping sentences and assertions that only a writer of titanic ego could make. Get ready to dive in...[this] two-volume anthology should keep you busy for days."
-- Dallas News

About the Author:

Norman Mailer was the author of more than three dozen works across a range of genres, including The Armies of the Night (1968), which won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the National Book Award, and The Executioner's Song (1979), which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

J. Michael Lennon emeritus professor of English at Wilkes University, is Norman Mailer's editor and biographer, and president of the Mailer Society. His books include Norman Mailer: A Double Life(2013) and Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: Library Of America
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1598535579
• ISBN 13: 9781598535570
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1