Word: mailer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Episodes," a pair of sharply drawn sketches of individuals in crisis. The first, dealing with the bombing of an Hawaiian volcano, has a more unique interest than its commoner companion piece, but both display mature style and original talent of which the reader may hope to see more. Norman Mailer's "Maybe Next Year" is in the nature of an experiment in objective subjectivity. Told through the mouth of a small child, this tale of a split home remains brutally objective and its technique is never really in keeping with the personality of the narrator. The good...
...four short stores are on a par with Norman Mailer's "Right Shoe On Left Foot," a powerful and tant story of the eternal clash between blacks and whites in the South. Mailer has the intensely realistic style of a James T. Farrell; he has perfected this technique and keeps perfect control over his subject matter. Least, successful of the stories, perhaps, is "The Bridge," by Robert Lowry, a conscious attempt at oversimplification that strives too much for this effect. Douglas Woolf handles his more familiar theme of tough children shop-lifting with ease and restraint. A too apparent theme...
Reaction is the law of life, and Norman Mailer's "The Greatest Thing in the World," the lead story in the latest issue of the Advocate, strikes a crumbling blow at the magazine's much-discussed and usually exaggerated "ivory tower." Mr. Roosevelt's characterization "underprivileged" is a euphemism when applied to A1 Groot, the protagonist of the tale. Driven by the cruel necessity of keeping his wizened little body alive, this "small, old, wrinkled boy of eighteen or nineteen" pits his wits against a gang of "sucker players" bent on taking his last grimy dollar. The reality...