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Random House
April 2010
On Sale: April 6, 2010
432 pages
ISBN: 1400067944
EAN: 9781400067947
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing
memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailer’s greatest
inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda
Fitzgerald before her, Norris Church Mailer has led a life
as large and as colorful as her husband’s—and every bit as
engaging. Growing up a strict Free Will Baptist in the South of the
1950s, Norris Church, christened Barbara Jean Davis, was
crowned “Little Miss Little Rock” at the age of three and
always knew that life had more to offer her than the
comforts of small-town Arkansas. But she could never have
guessed that in her early twenties she would date future
president Bill Clinton (and predict his national victory
even after he lost his first run for Congress), or that the
following year she would meet Norman Mailer, who was
passing through town giving a lecture at the local college.
They fell in love in one night—and their marriage lasted
thirty-three years. Despite her enduring love for the man, Norris found life
with the writer full of challenges—from carving out her own
niche in the wake of five ex-wives and numerous former
girlfriends, to easing her way into the hearts of her seven
stepchildren, to negotiating the ferocious world of
Mailer’s fame, friends, and literary life. The couple’s New
York parties were legendary, and their social circle
included such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline
Kennedy, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and Imelda Marcos. Their decades-long obsession with each other, as seen in
the intimate letters that Norris reveals here for the first
time, was not without tests and infidelities; theirs was a
marriage full of friendship, betrayal, doubts,
understanding, and deep, complicated, lifelong passion. With southern charm and wit, Norris Church Mailer depicts
the full evolution of her life, from her childhood all the
way through her intense marriage with Norman and his
heartbreaking death. This unforgettable memoir will enchant
readers with its honesty and insight into how we grow up
and how we love.
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