Tough Guy
Bloomsbury Caravel (Verlag)
978-1-4482-1814-1 (ISBN)
Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer’s life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.
The Naked and the Dead was acclaimed not so much for its intrinsic qualities but rather because it launched a brutally realistic sub-genre of military fiction – Catch 22 and MASH would not exist without it. Richard Bradford combs through Mailer’s personal letters – to lovers and editors – which appear to be a rehearsal for his career as a shifty literary narcissist, and which shape the characters of one of the most widely celebrated World War II novels.
Bradford strikes again with a merciless biography in which diary entries, journal extracts and newspaper columns set the tone of this study of a controversial figure. From friendships with contemporaries such as James Baldwin, failed correspondences with Hemingway and the Kennedys, to terrible – but justified – criticism of his work by William Faulkner and Eleanor Roosevelt, this book gives a unique, snappy and convincing perspective of Mailer’s ferocious personality and writings.
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.
Abbreviations and Referencing
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Brooklyn Boy
2. Odd Man Out
3. Pacific Grim
4. Waiting For Fame
5. Back Home
6. The Deer Park
7. Norman Mailer: The Death of the Novel
8. ‘The White Negro’
9. How Not To Murder Your Wife
10. Time For Something Different?
11. Apocalypse Now
12. Politics and the Women
13. The Biographer’s Song
14. Pharaohs and Tough Guys
15. A Clandestine World Revealed
16. Retirement: With Picasso, Oswald, Christ and Hitler
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4482-1814-4 / 1448218144 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4482-1814-1 / 9781448218141 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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