norman mailer - does he ever deviate from the tough guy routine?

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this past year i read 'the naked and the dead' and 'the deer park' and am beginning 'tough guys don't dance' - just wondering if there was a mailer book which deviated from the tough guy ritualistic formula?

― griffin doome, Monday, 22 December 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

the books aren't so much in a formula as a unitary voice, i think.

but try Armies Of The Night for something sorta difft. in terms of degree of self-loathing/doubt.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

haha how abt that book he wrote from the point of view of jesus?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

jesus was a badass.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

'Ancient Evenings' is his long novel about reincarnation and religious death mysteries set in ancient Egypt. I have it, still haven't read it, but it's certainly off his beaten path, i think.

― pete s, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The first and last chapters of that are brilliant. I can't remember much about the stuff in the middle though.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

Get a new tailor!

― the pinefox, Monday, 12 November 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

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