Norman Mailer
β Scribed by Michael K. Glenday (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 174
- Series
- Macmillan Modern Novelists
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: The Shaping of Personality....Pages 1-45
The Hot Breath of the Future: The Naked and the Dead ....Pages 46-61
Ambush in the Alley: Barbary Shore and The Deer Park ....Pages 62-83
A Plunge into the Age: An American Dream and Why Are We in Vietnam? ....Pages 84-114
From Egypt to Langley: Ancient Evenings, Tough Guys Donβt Dance and Harlotβs Ghost ....Pages 115-143
Back Matter....Pages 144-163
β¦ Subjects
Fiction; Twentieth-Century Literature
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