
Advertisements for Myself
by Norman Mailer
Title:
Advertisements for Myself
Author:
Norman Mailer
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
576 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780241340455
EAN:
9780241340455
Publication Date:
01/11/2018
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
514
Dimensions (mm):
193 x 125 x 27
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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''

























