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Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer

By Richard Bradford
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$28.00
By Richard Bradford
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The 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.

Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.

The Naked and the Dead was acclaimed no...

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Literary BiographyAmerican Literary Biography20th Century American Authors - Literary BiographyMailer, Norman (1923-2007)->BiographyAuthors, American->20th century->Biography