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18
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pieces
Pieces pro and con by a roster of leading
writers and critics, anatomizing the persistent
phenomenon of Mailer. Norman Podhoretz,
Gore Vidal, Diana Trilling, Elizabeth Hardwick,
Tom Wolfe, John Aldridge, Dwight Macdonald,
James Baldwin, Calder Willingham, and others
cover such diverse subjects as "The Aesthet–
ics of Norman Mailer," "How Good is Norman
Mailer?", "The Moral Radicalism of Norman
Mailer," "Norman Mailer at Graduate School".
Both an explication and an entertaining dis–
play of the many faces of America's most wick–
edly controversial literary figure.
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$6.95 .
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