Description
Very Good dust jacket, illustrated. Small tears at corners, rub wear to spine ends. Very Good+ binding is dark blue cloth over boards, white and gilt lettering on spine. Bumping to corners. Color tipped in frontispiece is a photo of the vertical city. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 9.3″ tall x 6.3″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Like his proposed vertical city–projected on the front jacket–Norman Mailer’s sensibility is intricate,” vast, boldly colored, and heaven-pointed, In CANNIBALS AND CHRISTIANS it engages with literature, politics, architecture, science, and war, Yet underlying the breadth of such concerns is this fundamental question: how do we live in America in this age -what is the quality of our experience?
Collected here are Mailer’s now famous interpretation of the Goldwater Convention in San
Francisco; his devastating analysis of the United States’ policy in Vietnam; his views on sexual attitudes in America; the classic interview he gave to the Paris Review; a sheaf of new poems; a new and startling philosophical dialogue; and two brilliant short stories, inching “The Last Night,” the first work he has ever written in the mode of science fiction.
Yet for Mailer the act of collection is in itself creative. He has organized the best of his occasional writing of the past six years and, in a linking series of “arguments,” explored their implications, discovering almost as the reader does the themes, preoccupations, and ideas upon which his most recent work is built, Central to his discoveries to the image provided in the title Our world, Mailer says in his introductory remarks, is “a world of such hypercivilization [that it] is a world not of adventurers, entrepreneurs, settlers…and other egocentric types of a dynamic society, but it is instead a world of whirlpools and formlessness where two huge types begin to reemerge, types there at the beginning of it all: Cannibals and Christians.
