THE RETURN OF NORMAN MAILER

The Last Man Standing

Norman Mailer, the only World War II–generation writer left, staked it all on manhood and the novel. Fifty-eight years after his first book, eighty-three years old, what does his oversized life mean?

January 1 2007 TOM JUNOD Steve Pyke
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THE RETURN OF NORMAN MAILER
The Last Man Standing

Norman Mailer, the only World War II–generation writer left, staked it all on manhood and the novel. Fifty-eight years after his first book, eighty-three years old, what does his oversized life mean?

January 1 2007 TOM JUNOD Steve Pyke

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