Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s (LOA #305): An American Dream / Why Are We in Vietnam? / The Armies of the Night / Miami and the Siege of Chicago (Library of America Norman Mailer Edition) - Hardcover

Norman Mailer; J. Michael Lennon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598535587 ISBN 13: 9781598535587

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, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s.

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Review:

"Mailer is missed: LBJ's dwarf alter ego would now be Trump's alter ego. . . . And he would have cheered any brave signs of revolt. The young lawyers rushing to airports with their laptops to help refugees after the immigrant ban, in January 2017, could be the antiwar kids of fifty years ago. But if we don't have Mailer, we have, in Armies of the Night, his gifts of observation and imagination, which turn out to be splendid armor for our own time." - --David Denby, Harper's Magazine

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

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: 1598535587
• ISBN 13: 9781598535587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 950