Norman Mailer published his first quasi-novel, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948, and his most recent, The Castle in the Forest, earlier this year, very close to his eighty-fourth birthday. In the almost six decades separating those two books he’s published more than thirty others, won two Pulitzer Prizes and one National Book Award, divorced five wives (he’s still (...)
May 04, 2007
Books
Diabolical Conception
The Castle in the ForestNorman Mailer Random House, $27.95, 496 pp.
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