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NORMAN MAILER: A DOUBLE LIFE
LENNON, J. MICHAEL
Norman Mailer was the one of the most famous writers of his generation, a figure as notorious for his
stormy romances and quarrels with other writers as he was respected for his numerous bestsellers and
literary accolades. In this candid biography, J. Michael Lennon brings a wealth of research informed by
his years of personal acquaintance with Mailer, as well as the cooperation of Mailer’s family, to reveal the
life and work of an American legend. In a career that produced eleven bestsellers, Mailer lived through
every great postwar event of the twentieth century and commented on many of them. From his initial
success with his World War II novel The Naked and the Dead, through his observations on the convulsive
1960s in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Armies of the Night, to his own quixotic run for mayor of New York
City, his life was a reflection of the turbulent times in which he lived. A man of sharp complexities, he was
loved and loathed, the most prominent public intellectual of his time, at once an outspoken critic of the
Vietnam War and the bête noir of the women’s rights movement. Lennon explores Mailer’s dualities:
journalist and activist, devoted family man (he was married six times and was the father of nine children)
and notorious philanderer, intellectual and fighter, writer and public figure, all of them evolving through
Mailer’s self-conscious effort to create a distinctive identity for himself.
BIOGRAPHY 1ST PRINTING 75,000
SIMON & SCHUSTER
928 PAGES
9781439150191
$47.00 HC
OCTOBER 2013
NOT QUITE THE CLASSICS
MOCHRIE, COLIN
Colin Mochrie, a man known worldwide for working without a script, has penned a collection of stories
destined to make its own mark in the literary community. Borrowing from a well-known improv game,
Mochrie takes the first and last lines from familiar classics and reimagines everything in between. With the
same engaging humour he exhibits on stage, television, and film, he takes the reader in bizarre and
hilarious new directions. Imagine A Tale of Two Cities in which a coyote gets his revenge on a road runner
or Herman Melville''s Moby Dick featuring a killer toupee. Imagine Sherlock Holmes performing stand-up
at a Victorian club and The Night Before Christmas with a time-travelling twist.
HUMOUR
VIKING
9780670066575
$24.00 HC
OCTOBER 2013
256 PAGES