Modest gifts : poems and drawings / Norman Mailer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mailer, Norman.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

viii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2003]

Summary:

An unexpected collection from Norman Mailer--a book of his selected poems and more than one hundred of his drawings, most of them never before published. Modest Gifts is full of what the author calls "casual pleasures"--witty, naughty, and surprisingly tender verse and art. Lust, seduction, betrayal, jealousy, and even the banality of cocktail party chatter are depicted with humor, affection, and, above all, honesty. Here is an aspect of Norman Mailer unknown to many: lighthearted, prankish, whimsical, and often gentle, playfully sketching the intimate urban world that surrounds us. Modest, funny, and true, each poem and drawing shows a new side of one of the greatest writers of our time.

Notes:

"The poems in this work were originally published in Cannibals and Christians (New York : The Dial Press, 1966) ... and in Deaths for the ladys (and other disasters) (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962)"--Colophon.

ISBN:

0812972376

OCLC:

52819645