Mailer's Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature

by Lennon, J. Michael
ISBN: 9781736494653
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Overview

Essays tracing a 35-year friendship between Norman Mailer and his authorized biographer, and the links to the biographer's family.

"J. Michael Lennon elevates literary sensibilities as he seamlessly blends memoir, essays, and reviews in his innovative collection. With adroit storytelling marked by wit, honesty, and awareness, Lennon crafts arresting tales that create the portrait of a biographer."
--Nancy McKinley, St. Christopher on Pluto

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.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Lennon, J. Michael
  • ISBN: 9781736494653
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 312
  • Publication Year: 2022
Language: English