Saw the movie. Left me a Rosanna Arquette fan to this day. I have a copy of the book which I purchased years ago after reading Armies of the Night (which is a fun book).I then tried to read Ancient Evenings, which is so bad I couldn’t finish it.Kind of turned me off from reading Mailer.
Mailer was probably the pre eminent author of the second half of the 20th century.
I was a friend of Barbara Norris (Norris Church Mailer) in Arkansas, and introduced to Norman by his old army buddy Francis Irby Gwaltney, who allowed me to read his correspondence with Norman. The correspondence is now at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Mailer met Barbara at a party in Russellville, AR that Gwaltney threw in Norman’s honor.
After The Naked and the Dead, Gwaltney wrote The Day the Century ended which a number of critics believe surpassed Mailer’s book describing WW2 in the Pacific.
Saw the movie. Left me a Rosanna Arquette fan to this day. I have a copy of the book which I purchased years ago after reading Armies of the Night (which is a fun book).I then tried to read Ancient Evenings, which is so bad I couldn’t finish it.Kind of turned me off from reading Mailer.
I think most would agree this is Mailer at his best.
Mailer was probably the pre eminent author of the second half of the 20th century.
I was a friend of Barbara Norris (Norris Church Mailer) in Arkansas, and introduced to Norman by his old army buddy Francis Irby Gwaltney, who allowed me to read his correspondence with Norman. The correspondence is now at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Mailer met Barbara at a party in Russellville, AR that Gwaltney threw in Norman’s honor.
After The Naked and the Dead, Gwaltney wrote The Day the Century ended which a number of critics believe surpassed Mailer’s book describing WW2 in the Pacific.