In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer
- 318 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
Norman Mailer, Susan Mailer's father, was among the most celebrated, talented and controversial writers of the 20th Century. The Naked and the Dead (1948), inspired by World War II, was an enormous bestseller and made him famous at the age of 25. Notoriously combative and egotistical, her father enjoyed a good fight both physically and verbally. Whether cheered or booed, Mailer was front and center of the cultural battles in the 1960s through the 1980s. He was married six times and fathered nine children. Susan, born in 1949, is the eldest.Susan's parents separated when she was a baby. She grew up shuttling between Mexico and New York. Later, she would marry a political activist, spending the majority of her adult life in Chile. In Another Place tells the story of her intense and complex relationship with her father, her five stepmothers and nine siblings, and the joys and pains of being part of the large Mailer clan. It is a tale of separation, and of the rewards and struggles of living in two very different cultures. Of being someone who belongs everywhere and nowhere, always longing for a life In Another Place.
