Advertisements for Myself

Originally published in 1959, "Advertisements for Myself" is an inventive collection of stories, essays, polemic, meditations, and interviews. It is Mailer at his brilliant, provocative, outrageous best. Emerging at the height of "hip," "Advertisements" is at once a chronicle of a crucial era in the formation of modern American culture and an important contribution to the great autobiographical tradition in American letters.

About the author

Norman Mailer was an American novelist and essayist.

Summary

Originally published in 1959, Advertisements for Myself is an inventive collection of stories, essays, polemic, meditations, and interviews. It is Mailer at his brilliant, provocative, outrageous best.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Mailer
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1992
• EAN: 9780674005907
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00590-7
• Weight: 603 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, Amerika, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form