{"product_id":"2026100011264-secondhand-mailer-a-biography","title":"Mailer: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew American writers have lived as loudly, as controversially, or as brilliantly as Norman Mailer — and Hilary Mills' Mailer: A Biography captures every combustible dimension of that extraordinary life. From his explosive debut with The Naked and the Dead in 1948 to his dual Pulitzer Prize-winning career that spanned war reporting, New Journalism, and the novel form, this biography chronicles the full arc of a man who was as much a cultural provocateur as he was a literary titan. Mills draws on extensive interviews with Mailer's friends, enemies, wives, and contemporaries to construct an intimate yet unflinching portrait of a writer whose personal life was as turbulent as his prose.\n\nWhat distinguishes this work is its dual commitment to literary criticism and psychological insight — Mills does not simply recount events but argues for Mailer's central, if contested, place in the American literary canon. She illuminates the contradictions of a Harvard-educated Brooklyn boy who fashioned himself into a bare-knuckled intellectual brawler, charting his battles with feminism, his obsessions with masculinity, and his insatiable hunger for public relevance. Written with the authority of a scholar and the pace of a thriller, Mailer: A Biography leaves the reader asking whether Norman Mailer was the greatest American writer of his generation — or merely the most impossible to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573119750363,"sku":"2026100011264-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3d33d557-ab61-441d-9517-5761c49b8cca.png?v=1791167769","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011264-secondhand-mailer-a-biography","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}