This biography is a record of 50's America, with a cast charaters and a variety of scenes, filled with writers, painters, actors. It is the intimate story of Norman Mailer in search of himself and the woman who was with him every step of the way.
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This biography is a record of 50's America, with a cast charaters and a variety of scenes, filled with writers, painters, actors. It is the intimate story of Norman Mailer in search of himself and the woman who was with him every step of the way.
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Fine in fine jacket. First edition, first printing, New York publisher imnprint on title page but from the British sheets and with the UK price on the jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 380 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. The unvarnished, intimate story of a literary genius and the woman who was with him every step of the way. Mailer in 1950 was living in Manhattan's Upper East Side; Adele Morales was the Brooklyn-born daughter of a blue-collar Latino family. The affection between them was immediate and passionate; ten years later Adele was in a hospital emergency room, the victim of a knife thrust from the man she loved. This is the story of the years in between: years of alcohoiic and drug binges, sexual licence, wild party after wild party from Greenwich Village to Paris to Provincetown. It's also the story of tenedrness and humor and middle class married life with two young daughters.
