Washington Monthly, March 1st, 1992
The Lives of Norman Mailer. Carl Rollyson. Paragon House, $26.95. The temptation for most is to think of Norman Mailer as a sort of heroic flop: the last autodidact, if you will, the novelist as philosopher king--supreme arbiter and embodiment of the history, culture, and politics of his age. He is a boozing, brawling, womanizing, self-infatuated Balzac or Dostoyevsky for post-World War II America. In the kitchen of his Brooklyn Heights brownstone, writes biographer Rollyson (who has never been there), Mailer has a homemade photo montage of himself and Hemingway, previous American incumbent ...
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