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{{Big|''Cannibals and Christians''. New York: Dial, 29 August, 1967. Miscellany, 400 pp., $5.95.}} | |||
London: Deutsch (minus all but one of the 54 poems in the American edition, which were restored in later editions, those lacking an “A” on the inside back flap of the dustwrapper and the truncated introduction of the first state). | London: Deutsch (minus all but one of the 54 poems in the American edition, which were restored in later editions, those lacking an “A” on the inside back flap of the dustwrapper and the truncated introduction of the first state). | ||
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Dedication: “To Lyndon B. Johnson, whose name inspired young men to cheer for me in public.” The acknowledgments note that “Ministers of Taste,” letters to Robert B. Silvers, editor of the ''New York Review of Books'', appeared in ''Partisan Review''. An extensive search has failed to turn them up. They are reprinted, however, in [[67.11]], [[82.19]] and [[14.3]]. Rpt: “The Metaphysics of the Belly” is reprinted from [[63.37]]; several selections from 66.11 appear, usually in a truncated form, in [[98.7]]; others are reprinted in full in [[13.1]]. See [[65.2]]. | Dedication: “To Lyndon B. Johnson, whose name inspired young men to cheer for me in public.” The acknowledgments note that “Ministers of Taste,” letters to Robert B. Silvers, editor of the ''New York Review of Books'', appeared in ''Partisan Review''. An extensive search has failed to turn them up. They are reprinted, however, in [[67.11]], [[82.19]] and [[14.3]]. Rpt: “The Metaphysics of the Belly” is reprinted from [[63.37]]; several selections from 66.11 appear, usually in a truncated form, in [[98.7]]; others are reprinted in full in [[13.1]]. See [[65.2]]. | ||
{{cquote|Apocalypse or debauch is upon us. And we are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back. |source= | {{cquote|Apocalypse or debauch is upon us. And we are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.|author=Mailer|source=66.11}} | ||
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== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
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{{big|Reviews}} | |||
* {{cite magazine |last=Alverez |first=A. |date=October 15, 1967 |title=Dr. Mailer, I Presume |url= |magazine=Observer |page=27 |publisher= |access-date= }} Positive. | |||
'' | * {{cite news |last=Fremont-Smith |first=Eliot |date=August 22, 1966 |title=A Nobel for Norman? |url= |work=New York Times |page=31 |access-date= }} Positive. | ||
* {{cite news |last=Handlin |first=Oscar |date=October 1966 |title=Review of ''Cannibals and Christians'' |url= |work=Atlantic |page=144 |access-date= }} Negative. | |||
* {{cite news |last=Sheed |first=Wilfred |date=August 21, 1966 |title=One-Man Dance Marathon |url= |work=New York Times Book Review |pages=1, 33 |access-date= }} Positive. | |||
* {{cite journal |last1=Tanner |first1=Tony |date=1967 |title=In the Lion’s Den |url= |journal=Partisan Review |volume=34 |issue=summer |pages=465–471 |doi= |access-date= }} Positive. Rpt: Lennon (1986). | |||
* {{cite magazine |last=Wain |first=John |date=October 1, 1966 |title=Mailer’s America |url= |magazine=New Republic |pages=19–20 |publisher= |access-date= }} Positive. | |||
{{Big|Essays}} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Bailey |first=Jennifer |chapter=''Cannibals and Christians'' |date=1978 |title=Norman Mailer: Quick-Change Artist |url= |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |pages=46–55 |isbn=9781349041572 |author-link= }} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Ehrlich |first=Robert |chapter=''Cannibals and Christians'' |date=1978 |title=Norman Mailer: The Radical as Hipster |url= |location=Metuchen, NJ |publisher=Scarecrow Press |pages=84–94 |isbn=9780810811607 |author-link= }} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Leeds |first=Barry H. |date=1969 |title=[[The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer]] |location=New York |publisher=NYU Press |pages=237–243 |ref=harv }} | |||
* {{cite journal |last1=Pritchard |first1=William H. |date=1967 |title=Norman Mailer’s Extravagances |url= |journal=Massachusetts Review |volume=3 |issue=summer |pages=562–568 |doi= |access-date= }} | |||
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[[Category:Works in the 1960s]] | [[Category:Works in the 1960s]] | ||
[[Category:Works in 1966]] | [[Category:Works in 1966]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Miscellanies]] | ||
[[Category:First Editions]] | [[Category:First Editions]] | ||