{"product_id":"tough-guy-the-life-of-norman-maile","title":"Professor Richard Bradford: Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer [2023] hardback","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night \u003c\/i\u003eand again in 1980 for \u003ci\u003eThe Executioner's Song\u003c\/i\u003e, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Naked and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e was acclaimed not so much for its intrinsic qualities but rather because it launched a brutally realistic sub-genre of military fiction - \u003ci\u003eCatch 22\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMASH\u003c\/i\u003e would not exist without it. Richard Bradford combs through Mailer's personal letters - to lovers and editors - which appear to be a rehearsal for his career as a shifty literary narcissist, and which shape the characters of one of the most widely celebrated World War II novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBradford strikes again with a merciless biography in which diary entries, journal extracts and newspaper columns set the tone of this study of a controversial figure. From friendships with contemporaries such as James Baldwin, failed correspondences with Hemingway and the Kennedys, to terrible - but justified - criticism of his work by William Faulkner and Eleanor Roosevelt, this book gives a unique, snappy and convincing perspective of Mailer's ferocious personality and writings.","brand":"Bradford, Richard","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44128870367522,"sku":"9781448218141","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/bradford-richard-professor-richard-bradford-tough-guy-the-life-of-norman-mailer-2023-hardback-9781448218141-57793636303187.jpg?v=1726765511","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/tough-guy-the-life-of-norman-maile","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}