The Reviewer’s Song
Andrew O’Hagan: Mailer’s Last Punch, 7 November 2013
Norman Mailer: A Double Life
by J. Michael Lennon.
Simon and Schuster, 947 pp., £30, November 2013,978 1 84737 672 5 Show More
by J. Michael Lennon.
Simon and Schuster, 947 pp., £30, November 2013,
“... the Clutter family murder case. ‘Weren’t you scared going into their cells?’ asks Babe Paley (played by Sigourney Weaver), speaking of the murderers while sipping a martini and purring for the Upper West Side. ‘Well,’ he says, ‘it’s not as frightening as meeting Norman Mailer.’ It was a boring flight and I was trying and failing to make ... ”