In Another Place, Susan Mailer
In Another Place, Susan Mailer
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In Another Place
With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer

Author: Susan Mailer

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/29/2020

Synopsis

Norman Mailer, Susan Mailer's father, was among the most celebrated, talented, and controversial writers of the 20th Century. The Naked and the Dead (1948), inspired by his experience in World War II, was a bestseller and made him famous at the age of 25. Notoriously combative and egotistical, her father enjoyed a good fight both physically and verbally. Whether cheered or booed, Mailer was front and center in America's cultural battles for more than 50 years. He married six times and was father to nine children. Susan, born in 1949, is the eldest.Susan's parents separated when she was a baby. She grew up shuttling between her mother's home in Mexico and New York. Later she would marry a Chilean activist, spending the majority of her adult life in Chile, where she is a practicing psychoanalyst.In Another Place tells the story of her intense and complex relationship with her father, her five stepmothers and nine siblings, and the joys and pains of being part of the large Mailer clan. It is a tale of separation, and of the rewards and struggles of living in two very different cultures. Of being someone who belongs everywhere and nowhere, always longing for a life . . . In Another Place.

About Susan Mailer

Susan Mailer, a 1971 Barnard graduate, finished her graduate studies in Clinical Psychology in Mexico, becoming a psychoanalyst in 1992. She has a private practice in Santiago, Chile where she lives with her husband, three grown children and grandchildren. She also teaches and supervises. A co-founder of the new Psychoanalytic Association of Santiago, her articles have been published in books and in various Latin American journals.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisabet on November 26, 2019

I don’t usually read memoirs—in particular, the sensational and exploitative memoirs often penned by the children of celebrities. However, In Another Place was highly recommended by a close friend. Meanwhile, I’ve always found Norman Mailer intriguing. Brilliant author, legendary bad boy, respected......more

Goodreads review by Gerald on December 06, 2019

In Another Place is a great read, especially for those interested in Norman Mailer. While I think there is little to glean about Norman that an aficionado wouldn’t already know, you shouldn’t read this book for that. Read it instead for the story of a daughter’s relationship to her celebrity father......more

Goodreads review by Robert on November 05, 2019

Susan Mailer’s book is memoir of incredible honesty, providing a first time look into the Mailer family’s lives, especially Norman Mailer as husband and father. It’s all from the inside, I mean, in a way even the best biographer couldn’t replicate. It’s strange to someone who has looked for years at......more

Goodreads review by Beth on September 21, 2020

I was predisposed to like this book because I like memoirs and I love reading about writers writing. This is a writer writing about a writer writing, which is like the trifecta of memoirs for me. But, for some reason, I didn't have high expectations for the book either, I just wanted to read the sto......more

Goodreads review by Esther on March 03, 2020

Open, honest, insightful and beautifully written.......more

Quotes

"Susan has written a memoir of her life as Norman's eldest using her skills as a therapist... in facing an often chaotic and turbulent childhood." - London Times"The author and daughter of Norman Mailer says 'swagger and gruffness' were part of the novelist's nature, but he was also 'kind and sensitive'" - Wall Street Journal"In Another Place brings us to many new places in the Mailer universe. Written with tenderness, acuity and unadorned psychological depth, Susan Mailer´s memoir is a powerful look at the literary world." - Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin.

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