Mailer, Norman

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Love him or hate him, Norman Mailer is a prominent figure of American literature. His gritty, violent, sometimes disturbing, and often sexually explicit books range from war stories to spy fiction to creative nonfiction. Never one to avoid controversy, he has written novels from the perspectives of both Hitler and Jesus Christ. His sometimes notorious public life affected the reception of his work, and he's been criticized for misogyny, racism, hubris, and presumption; but however you feel about him, it's good to be familiar with his work. Start with: The Naked and the Dead (fiction); The Armies of the Night (nonfiction)
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  • Jewish
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Mailer, Norman
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http://ireland.iol.ie/~kic/
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Love him or hate him, Norman Mailer is a prominent figure of American literature. His gritty, violent, sometimes disturbing, and often sexually explicit books range from war stories to spy fiction to creative nonfiction. Never one to avoid controversy, he has written novels from the perspectives of both Hitler and Jesus Christ. His sometimes notorious public life affected the reception of his work, and he's been criticized for misogyny, racism, hubris, and presumption; but however you feel about him, it's good to be familiar with his work. Start with: The Naked and the Dead (fiction); The Armies of the Night (nonfiction)
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  • Jewish
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