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...Executioner's Song, Mailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...Friese '79, token: Rams, 23-2 President Jimmy Carter, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., former Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty, Isaac Asimov, Gale Sayers, Norman Mailer '43. Ronald Reagan and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) could not be reached for comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How They See It | 1/16/1980 | See Source »

...Married Man, Piers Paul Read ∙Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙Shikasta, Doris Lessing ∙Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙The Executioner's Song,Norman Mailer ∙The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...Executioner's Song, Mailer (8) 10. Portraits, Freeman

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

Many of the other arts followed patterns similar to those in film and theater: a few standout contributions in an otherwise unmemorable and/or incomprehensible decade. In literature, for example, the most notable works were written by names from the past: Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, a few others. Twenty years from now, though, an historian looking back on the '70s will proably be more impressed--or depressed--by the extraordinary amount of selfhelp/how-to/me-generation literature that dominated the best-seller lists: The Joy of Sex, I'm OK, You're OK, The Complete Scarsdale Medical...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: A Decade of Decadence: Arts of the '70s | 1/10/1980 | See Source »

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