Volume 16, Number 8 · May 6, 1971
Watchman, What of the Night?
By Roger Sale
Of a Fire on the Moon
by Norman Mailer
Little, Brown, 472 pp., $7.95
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
by Doris Lessing
Knopf, 308 pp., $6.95
When Norman Mailer's 'The Prisoner of Sex' appeared recently in Harper's, it served to shove his Of a Fire on the Moon into the background, and even his admirers did not seem unhappy. Mailer admits he wrote it because he needed money, and his way of giving value for money was to write a book almost 500 pages long; moreover, it is about the flight of Apollo 11, about which no one has cared for some time. So it was good of Mailer to appear again quickly, and writing about women as well.
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