Norman Mailer: Quick-Change Artist

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Bailey (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1979
Tongue: English
Leaves: 167
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-6
‘The Peculiar Megalomania of a Young Writer’....Pages 7-37
‘The Existential Hero’ and the ‘Bitch Goddess’....Pages 38-67
‘A Frustrated Actor’....Pages 68-100
The Novelist versus The Reporter....Pages 101-128
‘Faceless broads’ and ‘angels of sex’....Pages 129-143
Back Matter....Pages 144-160

✦ Subjects

Fiction

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