MORNINGS WITH MAILER autorstwa Dwayne Raymond
 
O książce:

MORNINGS WITH MAILER, Dwayne Raymond's intimate, illuminating memoir of his experience working for Norman Mailer, recasts the literary lion in a new light and recounts the friendship that formed between them. In the spring of 2003, when Norman Mailer was eighty years old, he invited an unlikely companion into his life: Dwayne Raymond, a young writer who was waiting tables at a restaurant in Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod, where Mailer spent most of his final years.  Raymond became Mailer's aide in all matters professional and private, assisting the Pulitzer Prize-winning author on four books he published during this time, including his final novel, THE CASTLE IN THE FOREST.  As Raymond's responsibilities grew, so too did his closeness to Mailer, who taught him how to navigate his own personal challenges.

In this poignant memoir, Dwayne Raymond presents a loving portrait of Norman Mailer in his twilight years, depicting a complex, quirky but achingly human man so unlike the Mailer of disquieting legend.  Beautifully written and honestly portrayed, MORNINGS WITH MAILER is a tender and revealing story about a great writer, his man Friday, and their improbably but enduring friendship.


O autorze:
Dwayne Raymond worked with Norman Mailer from April 2003 until Mailer's death in November 2007.  Raymond contributes regularly to the Huffington Post, and has written for The New York Times Brief Guide to Essential Knowledge, The Mirror, In Newsweekly, and The Boston Reader.


Prasa o książce:
"In this moving memoir, Dwayne Raymond provides an intimate look at the daily routine of a great writer in the last years of his life.  Raymond poignantly describes how Mailer fought like a lion to continue writing even as age and illness slowed him down."  -- Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of TEAM OF RIVALS