Advertisements for Myself SADB5740062003

Author:Norman Mailer
Publisher:Signet T1889
Year: 1960 Print: 1 Cover Price: $
Condition:Very Good. Light wear
Genre: Non Fiction
Pages: 477
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Advertisements for Myself, a diverse and freewheeling tour through Mailers early career, covers the many subjects with which hed grapple for the rest of his life: sex, race, politics, literature, and the systems of power that shape American life. There are lists, interviews, poems, confessions, postscripts, two Tables of Contents (one chronological, one thematic), undergraduate short stories, fragments from a one-act playand of course, Mailers classic, groundbreaking essays, including The White Negro (Superficial Reflections on the Hipster), perhaps Mailers most prescient early polemic, and Mind of an Outlaw, which lends its name to Mailers latest, and first posthumous, collection. A playful, unclassifiable snapshot of American culture at the end of the fifties,Advertisements for Myself, is also a cornerstone of Mailers long and prolific career: In this volume, declaredThe New York Timesin 1959, Mr. Mailer, at 36, shows once again that he is the most versatile if not the most significant talent of his generation.