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Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings

By Norman Mailer

Book information

Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Year
2003
ISBN
0812972376, 9780812972375
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
17 MB (18016905 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
288\0
Time added
2015-09-25 13:57:08
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Description

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.

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