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    Mailer's Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
    Mailer's Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
    Mailer's Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
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    Mailer's Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature

    By J. Michael Lennon

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    This book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century.  Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon’s remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEtruscan Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2022
    ISBN9781736494691
    Mailer's Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
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    J. Michael Lennon

    J. Michael Lennon is Emeritus Vice President for Academic Affairs and Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. In addition to being chair of the editorial board of The Mailer Review, he has written or edited several books about and with Mailer.

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