Mailer: His Life and Times - Hardcover

Manso, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671442643 ISBN 13: 9780671442644

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1985

Synopsis

Mailer's forty-year career is captured in this tapestry of words and recollections by those who have known him

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Manso is the author of the definitive biography of Marlon Brando, as well as Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape, which was a #1 Boston Globe bestseller. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Paris Match.

Review:

"Try dipping into Mr. Manso's interviews without at once becoming addicted....You can't." -- The New York Times

"Manso's exhaustive, kiss-and-tell biography seems fitting for a man of such caprice and profligacy, his work defined by excess and brilliance at once." -- The Boston Globe

"The book is grand gossip, a sort of portable Hamptons, Everyman's own private literary soirée." -- Time

"A rare and unprecedented document." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Frank, detailed, outspoken, funny, horrifying, fascinating, ludicrous, awesome, irreverent, brave, hypnotic, petty, dramatic, adroit, and unseemly -- a whirlwig of ambition, passion, and disaster....It will make you forget your troubles." -- The Village Voice

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0671442643
• ISBN 13: 9780671442644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 718