Norman Mailer The Last Romantic eBook Carl Rollyson
Download As PDF : Norman Mailer The Last Romantic eBook Carl Rollyson 
Norman Mailer The Last Romantic gets at the sources of Mailer’s obsession with violence, whilst also portraying a major literary figure in the making.
From his fabulous debut war novel,The Naked and the Dead to his final bid for literary fame,The Castle in the Forest, a brooding foray into 20th century evil, Rollyson reveals all.
Born to Isaac ‘Barney’ Mailer, a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant from South Africa, and his wife Fanny on 31st January, 1923, Mailer was already showing signs of greatness at the tender age of six.
Impressing his teachers, his mother soon realised that Mailer had great prospects; only helped by the fact that he was a good-looking boy with a personality that drew people to him.
From an early age, Mailer was comfortable talking about all manner of topics and his underlying obsession with violence and sex merged into his personal life.
Married many times, Mailer was unable to keep his desires at bay and had a total of nine children from all his marriages, though his relationships with women were not limited to his wives…
Norman Mailer The Last Romanticshows the great Norman Mailer in an entirely new and focused light, revealing all the trials and tribulations of his life and the successes of his many works.
Praise for Carl Rollyson
‘Meticulous narrative’ - New York Times Book Review
‘Recommended for both lay readers and scholars’ - Library Journal
Carl Rollyson is a writer whose biographies include Beautiful Exile The Life of Martha Gellhorn, Lillian Hellman Her Life and Legendand Marie Curie Honesty in Science.A well-known scholar of biography, he has also published Reading Biography, Essays in Biography, Lives of the Novelists,and British Biography A Reader.
Norman Mailer The Last Romantic eBook Carl Rollyson
The life and work of Norman Kingsley Mailer (1928-2007) one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, is reintroduced from this1992 re-issue: “Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic” (2017) a timeless expertly researched biography by esteemed notable Canadian scholar, educator, prolific bestselling award winning author Carl Rollyson PhD.Mailer, was certainly one of the most controversial and colorful American authors that consistently thrived in the spotlight. When compared to other writers, Mailer gave the most interviews, his outspoken views on a variety of subject matters from freedom and expression, protest, war, politics, religion, and a host of other topics influenced a generation and shaped American life and culture.
Mailer was married five times, the father of nine children. Without question or exception, Mailer cultivated an exaggerated sense and style of masculinity and alpha maleness that clearly defined him. Rollyson captured Mailer in his obsessional form of uber- masculinity, illustrating how he began to create this image while at Harvard, (he enrolled at 16) determined to shed his younger identity as a timid, introverted, quiet, indulged mama’s boy. Mailer’s world changed drastically when his focus shifted from engineering to literature. He would become a writer, and never looked back.
Literary critics point out that Mailer never produced a memoir/autobiography, or a single masterpiece that typically define a great author. Mailer wrote over 30 books, producing 17 volumes between 1962-1972. He won two Pulitzer prizes. Rollyson noted that Mailer's genius was reflected in his stories and characters, beginning with a war hero theme of his first novel “The Naked and the Dead” (1948). Mailer avoided enlisting in the military for as long as possible, while patriotic young men were joining military service in record numbers to fight in WWII. Instead of enlisting as an officer, that would have likely kept him away from combat zones and in an office/desk job—possibly in intelligence, he joined the ranks of the enlisted men, reasoning that it would expose him to a better and more realistic military experience to record and write about.
Mailer's writing would always come first during his lifetime. Rollyson writes about Mailer’s life and connections to his writing in fascinating painstaking detail. His analysis of Mailers books, character profiles, plot summaries are exceptionally narrated in this colossal 535 page biographical study. Special thanks and appreciation to Odyssey Press for the direct e-copy for the purpose of review.
Product details
|
Tags : Amazon.com: Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic eBook: Carl Rollyson: Kindle Store,ebook,Carl Rollyson,Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic,Endeavour Media,Biography & Autobiography Literary,Literary Criticism American General
People also read other books :
- The Dead Passages Mr Dennis Butler 9781481927413 Books
- Momma Loved Us This I Know eBook Richard Daniel
- Orlando Travel Guide (Audible Audio Edition) Caterina Christakos Michael D Crain Books
- Denmark M Pearson Thomson Books
- Circuit Engineering + Cryptography + Robotics Solis Tech 9781530173068 Books
Norman Mailer The Last Romantic eBook Carl Rollyson Reviews
I get a big kick reading author biographies, and this book was no different. Outside of The Naked and the Dead, I knew little about Norman Mailer, except for his being attacked and defamed by the women’s groups during the seventies and eighties. Yet, Carl Rollyson’s pen enlightened and entertained me while I read this biography.
The book is written with attention to every detail about Mailer’s life, work, and personality. The biographer also analyzes the author's books, the characters in them, and the plot summaries.
Mailer’s personal life, five marriages and nine children, are given a good amount of space in the book, and rightfully so, because what he wanted the world to see him through was his exaggerated masculinity. It wasn’t because he hated women, but he hated not being without them as most of his wives were very strong women who fought with him without fear and all his children liked him. The black spot on Mailer’s treatment of a wife was when he knifed Adele and almost killed her. Still, Adele was with him all her life, even after their divorce, living in close proximity and relating to him and his other wives.
After reading this book, I don’t think Mailer was xenophobic or prejudiced against women, in the real sense. His personality was just different, as he was who he was, a bit narcissistic maybe. I had the feeling that, because he was a writer, he was writing even when he wasn’t writing, as he was making up scenes and situations in real life just to watch what he could get out of them. He could be charming or he could be extremely gruff as the circumstance dictated, a circumstance which he created most of the time.
It takes guts to explore the dark emotions, racism, or other negative isms. Because of The Naked and the Dead, Mailer reached an early fame which must have shocked him and must have hindered his growth as an author somewhat. Even so, he won two Pulitzers, and his work of thirty volumes is nothing to frown upon because he knew and understood his and everyone else’s shortcomings.
Since his idols were Hemingway and Dos Passos, he was also influenced by the image of a fighting macho male. Maybe for that reason, his picked his characters from among the lawless. After reading this biography, I think Norman Kingsley Mailer to be one of the most controversial and intriguing authors of his time.
I enjoyed this book a lot. As a fan of authors and the art of writing, reading it has been a delight; however, it can be too long and detailed for the devotees of lighter reading.
The life and work of Norman Kingsley Mailer (1928-2007) one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, is reintroduced from this1992 re-issue “Norman Mailer The Last Romantic” (2017) a timeless expertly researched biography by esteemed notable Canadian scholar, educator, prolific bestselling award winning author Carl Rollyson PhD.
Mailer, was certainly one of the most controversial and colorful American authors that consistently thrived in the spotlight. When compared to other writers, Mailer gave the most interviews, his outspoken views on a variety of subject matters from freedom and expression, protest, war, politics, religion, and a host of other topics influenced a generation and shaped American life and culture.
Mailer was married five times, the father of nine children. Without question or exception, Mailer cultivated an exaggerated sense and style of masculinity and alpha maleness that clearly defined him. Rollyson captured Mailer in his obsessional form of uber- masculinity, illustrating how he began to create this image while at Harvard, (he enrolled at 16) determined to shed his younger identity as a timid, introverted, quiet, indulged mama’s boy. Mailer’s world changed drastically when his focus shifted from engineering to literature. He would become a writer, and never looked back.
Literary critics point out that Mailer never produced a memoir/autobiography, or a single masterpiece that typically define a great author. Mailer wrote over 30 books, producing 17 volumes between 1962-1972. He won two Pulitzer prizes. Rollyson noted that Mailer's genius was reflected in his stories and characters, beginning with a war hero theme of his first novel “The Naked and the Dead” (1948). Mailer avoided enlisting in the military for as long as possible, while patriotic young men were joining military service in record numbers to fight in WWII. Instead of enlisting as an officer, that would have likely kept him away from combat zones and in an office/desk job—possibly in intelligence, he joined the ranks of the enlisted men, reasoning that it would expose him to a better and more realistic military experience to record and write about.
Mailer's writing would always come first during his lifetime. Rollyson writes about Mailer’s life and connections to his writing in fascinating painstaking detail. His analysis of Mailers books, character profiles, plot summaries are exceptionally narrated in this colossal 535 page biographical study. Special thanks and appreciation to Odyssey Press for the direct e-copy for the purpose of review.
0 Response to "[3S7]⇒ Read Free Norman Mailer The Last Romantic eBook Carl Rollyson"
Post a Comment