NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "THE GLOBE AND MAIL"
Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century
American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. "Mind of
an Outlaw, " the first posthumous publication from this outsize
literary icon, collects Mailer's most important and representative
work in the form that many rank as his most electrifying.
As America's foremost public intellectual, Norman Mailer was a
ubiquitous presence in our national life--on the airwaves and in
print--for more than sixty years. With his supple mind and
pugnacious persona, he engaged society more than any other writer
of his generation. The trademark Mailer swagger is much in evidence
in these pages as he holds forth on culture, ideology, politics,
sex, gender, and celebrity, among other topics. Here is Mailer on
boxing, Mailer on Hemingway, Mailer on Marilyn Monroe, and, of
course, Mailer on Mailer--the one subject that served as the
beating heart of all of his nonfiction.
From his early essay "A Credo for the Living," published in 1948,
when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year
before his death, Mailer wrestled with the big themes of his times.
He was one of the most astute cultural commentators of the postwar
era, a swashbuckling intellectual provocateur who never pulled a
punch and was rarely anything less than interesting. "Mind of an
Outlaw" spans the full arc of Mailer's evolution as a writer,
including such essential pieces as his acclaimed 1957 meditation on
hipsters, "The White Negro"; multiple selections from his seminal
collection "Advertisements for Myself;" and a
never-before-published essay on Sigmund Freud.
Incendiary, erudite, and unrepentantly outrageous, Norman Mailer
was a dominating force on the battlefield of ideas. Featuring an
incisive Introduction by Jonathan Lethem, "Mind of an Outlaw" forms
a fascinating portrait of Mailer's intellectual development across
the span of his career as well as the preoccupations of a nation in
the last half of the American century.
Praise for "Mind of an Outlaw"
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" Mailer's] best and brightest."--"Esquire"
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"The fifty essays collected in this retrospective volume span
sixty-four years and show Norman] Mailer (1923-2007) at his brawny,
pugnacious, and egotistical best. . . . This provocative collection
brims with insights and reflections that show why Mailer is
regarded as a great literary mind of his generation."--"Publishers
Weekly"
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"The selections open a window onto the capacious mind and process
of one of the most volatile intellects of the twentieth
century."--"Library Journal"
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"Vintage Mailer: brilliant, infuriating, witty and never, ever
boring.""--Tampa Bay Times"
"As good an introduction to Mailer's habits of mind as there's
ever been."--"Kirkus Reviews"
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"There's no arguing about Mailer the essayist--he was outstanding.
. . . These insightful essays educate, argue and persuade on
everything from politics and literature to film, philosophy and the
human condition."--"Shelf Awareness"
"From the Hardcover edition."
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