Mailer: His Life and Times - Couverture souple

Manso, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140080287 ISBN 13 : 9780140080285

Editeur : Penguin Books, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Manso Peter

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

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

"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

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

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

"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

Présentation de l'éditeur

THE DEFINITIVE, AUTHORIZED ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN ICON

The winner of every major national literary award, the preeminent novelist of his generation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a movie director, politician, pugilist, antiwar activist, hipster, philosopher, and enfant terrible, Norman Mailer has been maligned, loved, hated, belittled, idolized -- but never ignored. This sweeping biography captures the legend's extraordinary life and career in his own fascinating words and in vivid accounts by his famous peers, friends, enemies, wives, lovers, and family members. Mailer is an extraordinary tapestry, a portrait of an era as well as a man -- as protean as the subject himself and just as overflowing with life.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140080287
• ISBN 13: 9780140080285
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 720