Bibliograph

Mailer's last days, new and selected remembrances of a life in literature, J. Michael Lennon

Type

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Mailer's last days, new and selected remembrances of a life in literature, J. Michael Lennon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mailer's last days

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

J. Michael Lennon

Sub title

new and selected remembrances of a life in literature

Summary

This book of essays by Norman Mailer's biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon's remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself

Target audience

adult

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