Norman Mailer: An American Aesthetic (Paperback)

Contents: A study of Norman Mailer’s fiction and documentary novels from 1948-1991 ? Analysis of prose voice, literary technique, narrative structure and characterisation ? An in-depth account of the ‘second civil war’ trilogy The Armies of the Night, Miami and the Siege of Chicago and Of a Fire on the Moon ? Mailer’s demonstrations against the Vietnam War, his run-ins with the Women’s Liberation movement, and occasional clashes with other American writers of the period ? Mailer’s contribution to American Naturalism, New Journalism and Faction literature.