Mailer: A Biography
Autor Mary V. Dearbornen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 dec 2001
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780618154609
ISBN-10: 0618154604
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 130 x 281 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0618154604
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 130 x 281 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States
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Recenzii
"Dearborn gets Mailer's contradictions and irrationalities onto the page as story, in plain, sometimes hard-boiled English. . . . [S]he likes to knock the stuffing out of him when she finds him too upholstered . . ." The New York Times
'Setting a standard for lucidity and general competence that even Mailer's authorized biographer will be hard pressed to reach, Dearborn's unauthorized life tells how the writer of The Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song "ran with his celebrity as far as he could." Dearborn, who has also written biographies of Henry Miller and Louise Bryant, recounts Mailer's early years at Harvard, his first success in his 20s with The Naked and the Dead and his rough and tumble later years as one of the keenest of the New Journalism, nonfiction novelists. There is clearly much very juicy material to be covered here, and Dearborn does it well. She is devastating in her treatment of Mailer's violent alcoholic excesses, painting an unforgettable portrait of the author on the night he stabbed his wife: one minute picking a fight with George Plimpton on the street, the next frightening the guests at his party and finally, inexplicably, almost killing her. Dearborn artfully explicates some of Mailer's more elusive texts, such as the famous passage in his essay "The White Negro" in which he apparently advocates the killing of 50-year-old shopkeepers for the sheer therapeutic effect of it. And she is careful in narrating the stories of Mailer's seemingly endless marriages and affairs. In the end, Dearborn sees her subject , now 76 and weather-beaten, as the macho man who plays by his rules--and will always do almost anything for the right price. Comfortable, finally, with his bank accounts, Mailer could defend the critical beating his book on Marilyn Monroe received in 1974 by contending, "I'm not going to sit here and bleed for the American public when the book was conceived by all in the first place as a project that would ideally make money." ' Publishers Weekly
".... Now, without lifting a finger to assist, he gets a wonderful biography. Mary Dearborn, over-supplied with ugly material, has laid it out with order, wit and a fine sense of social history. She details the head-butting, the drunkenness, the drugs, the political incoherence, the obscene abuse of admirers, the fascination with the criminal. But she offers his virtues as well, laced with a scholarly and sympathetic analysis of Mailer's work." The Washington Post —
'Setting a standard for lucidity and general competence that even Mailer's authorized biographer will be hard pressed to reach, Dearborn's unauthorized life tells how the writer of The Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song "ran with his celebrity as far as he could." Dearborn, who has also written biographies of Henry Miller and Louise Bryant, recounts Mailer's early years at Harvard, his first success in his 20s with The Naked and the Dead and his rough and tumble later years as one of the keenest of the New Journalism, nonfiction novelists. There is clearly much very juicy material to be covered here, and Dearborn does it well. She is devastating in her treatment of Mailer's violent alcoholic excesses, painting an unforgettable portrait of the author on the night he stabbed his wife: one minute picking a fight with George Plimpton on the street, the next frightening the guests at his party and finally, inexplicably, almost killing her. Dearborn artfully explicates some of Mailer's more elusive texts, such as the famous passage in his essay "The White Negro" in which he apparently advocates the killing of 50-year-old shopkeepers for the sheer therapeutic effect of it. And she is careful in narrating the stories of Mailer's seemingly endless marriages and affairs. In the end, Dearborn sees her subject , now 76 and weather-beaten, as the macho man who plays by his rules--and will always do almost anything for the right price. Comfortable, finally, with his bank accounts, Mailer could defend the critical beating his book on Marilyn Monroe received in 1974 by contending, "I'm not going to sit here and bleed for the American public when the book was conceived by all in the first place as a project that would ideally make money." ' Publishers Weekly
".... Now, without lifting a finger to assist, he gets a wonderful biography. Mary Dearborn, over-supplied with ugly material, has laid it out with order, wit and a fine sense of social history. She details the head-butting, the drunkenness, the drugs, the political incoherence, the obscene abuse of admirers, the fascination with the criminal. But she offers his virtues as well, laced with a scholarly and sympathetic analysis of Mailer's work." The Washington Post —
Notă biografică
Mary V. Dearborn is the author of MAILER: A BIOGRAPHY, as well as biographies of Henry Miller, John Dewey and Anzia Yezierska, and Louise Bryant. Dearborn holds a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She lives in New York.