The Time of Her Time (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman Mailer
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1950's
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Sergius O’Shaugnessy, Denise Gondelman
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, New York City, Women, Orphans or orphanages, Men, Time, Bullfighting or bullfighters
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
Sergius O’Shaugnessy has tried to live entirely by his own lights, to establish the time of his time. Sergius is a sexual adventurer, a man of action asserting his manhood. He has even established a bullfighting school in Greenwich Village. He is a loner, living on the fringes of society, refusing to conform, and behaving like an artist, which means abiding by his own code and creativity.
Sergius has come by his identity the hard way. He is an orphan who grew up in a Catholic orphanage. To make himself, he has had to jettison not only the teachings of...
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See Also:
Norman Mailer (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Norman Mailer (Long Fiction)Norman Mailer (Dictionary of World Biography)Norman Mailer (Identities and Issues)Norman Mailer (Sixties in America)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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