Last Party Scenes From My Life With Norm

By Adele Mailer

A full account of Adele Mailer's volatile marriage to Noramn Mailer a marriage that spanned drug binges, sexual license, and wild parties. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857821955
• ISBN13: 9781857821956
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Blake Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Surprisngly engaging, unexpectedly redeeming , yes, sordid.

So insightful; I thought that only today do we live in the apex of worship of all things celebrity driven. Sycophantic ego fueled hangers-on confuse notoriety with "brilliance". It seems that on a smaller scale- and somehow more refined because literary celebrities then needed a certain caliber of intellectualism - the same thing was true in the late fifties and early sixties.I must confess not ever having read a Norman Mailer novel- really why would I ? However at the time, in a small and rarified media universe, this man was a big big star back in the era of the rebels and beatniks- Greenwich Village ,Jimmy Dean, Marlon Brando, Jack Kerouac .Because of the glamour and allure of these romantic characters we don't want to admit what desolute junkies and losers these characters ultimately were. I believe that the snide reviews from the critics reveal a theme commonly seen- DONT TELL US WHAT WE DONT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT OUR HEROES- especially the men! Just because Adele Mailer was never on a talk show and isn't a household name her story isn't valid ?( Oh yeah- she was a housewife- shave off 75 points) I struggled through the first part of the book simply because I couldn't relate to the carnal appeal of the beginnings of the union- maybe that's what turns some people off ; but the second half of the book redeems this as we see the decline of a marriage amidst some shimmering backdrops peppered with the sodden glitteratai.The writer of all these tales is booze, competitive posturing,and a lust for drama , and it does get tiring and predictable- just like in real life.

this was agreat book

wow....this book was very good. cool, yo!