- Writers in Fiction, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Social life and customs
Narrated by Lovett, a disabled World War II veteran, about intrigues surrounding McLeod, one of his Brooklyn boarding house neighbors, who is a former communist in this Cold War era setting, and his fellow boarders, one of whom is tailing McLeod.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Norman Mailer
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Signet, Rinehart & co., inc., Universal Library
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375700392
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Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of narrative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the essay onto the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts and politics oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letter
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