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3Philip Bufithis, Norman Mailer. NY: New York University Press, 1986, p. 76.
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5Michael Glendy, Norman Mailer. Houndmills:Macmillan Press Ltd, 1995, p. 106.
6Stanley Gutman, Mankind in Barbary: The Individual and Society in the Novels of Norman Mailer. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1975, p. 135.
7Norman Mailer, Why Are we in Vietnam? New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967, p. 37.
8Richard Poirier, Norman Mailer. New York:The Viking Press, 1972, p. 129.
9Jennifer Bailey, Norman Mailer: Quick-Change Artist. London: MacMillan, 1979, p.79.
10Barry Leeds, The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer. New York: New York University Press,1969, p. 198.