Advertisements for Myself
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1960s
A01=Norman Mailer
american dream
americana
Author_Norman Mailer
autobiography
biographies and autobiographies
biography
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DCF
Category=DNBL1
Category=DNL
Category=NL-BG
Category=NL-DC
Category=NL-DN
comedy non-fiction
COP=United Kingdom
embracing the beat
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essays
Format=BC
HMM=198
hunter s thompson
IMPN=Penguin Classics
ISBN13=9780241340455
joan didion
Language_English
letters
literary criticism
naked or dead
new journalism
nonfiction
PA=Available
PD=20181101
POP=London
Price=€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Penguin Books Ltd
sixties
SMM=25
Subject=Biography: General
Subject=Poetry
Subject=Prose: Non-fiction
the dead
tom wolfe
triple beat
truman capote
war non-fiction
WG=394
WMM=129
Product details
- ISBN 9780241340455
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 131 x 198 x 25mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2018
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of Mailer's key beliefs contains pieces on his war experiences in the Philippines (the basis for his famous first novel The Naked and the Dead), tributes to fellow novelists William Styron, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal and magnificent polemics against pornography, advertising, drugs and politics. Also included is his notorious exposition of the phenomenon of the 'White Negro', the Beat Generation's existentialist hero whose life, like Mailer's, is 'an unchartered journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self'
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Executioner's Song and Harlot's Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night, A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon) and The Fight. He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize.
