Mailer: His Life and Times. This item is unavailable.Mailer: His Life and Times

Mailer's forty-year career is captured in this tapestry of words and recollections by those who have known him

"A rare and unprecedented document."-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

"Manso's exhaustive, kiss-and-tell biography seems fitting for a man of such caprice and profligacy, his work defined by excess and brilliance at once." -- "The Boston Globe"

"Frank, detailed, outspoken, funny, horrifying, fascinating, ludicrous, awesome, irreverent, brave, hypnotic, petty, dramatic, adroit, and unseemly -- a whirlwig of ambition, passion, and disaster....It will make you forget your troubles." -- "The Village Voice"

"A rare and unprecedented document." -- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

"Try dipping into Mr. Manso's interviews without at once becoming addicted....You can't." -- "The New York Times"

"The book is grand gossip, a sort of portable Hamptons, Everyman's own private literary soiree." -- "Time""