NORMAN Mailer, who died yesterday at the age of 84, was to fiction what Muhammad Ali was to boxing. Not that he ever floated like a butterfly or stung like a bee. Rather, Mailer was like a bull elephant in a bed of roses.
An appreciation by Alan Taylor
NORMAN Mailer, who died yesterday at the age of 84, was to fiction what Muhammad Ali was to boxing. Not that he ever floated like a butterfly or stung like a bee. Rather, Mailer was like a bull elephant in a bed of roses.