@article{342015, author = {Mailer, Norris Church.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/342015}, title = {A ticket to the circus : a memoir /}, publisher = {Random House,}, abstract = {The sixth (and last) wife of Norman Mailer, Norris Church Mailer, met the late writer in 1975, when she was 26 and he twice her age; they were married for 33 years. Her memoir is, among other things, the story of a series of emancipations: from the constraints of her loving but limiting parents and the claustrophobic moralism of her Arkansas hometown; from her first marriage to a man she quickly outgrew; and from her inhibitions about writing and creating art. Norris Church Mailer who has led a life as large and as colorful as her husband's, and every bit as engaging.}, recid = {342015}, pages = {416 p. :}, address = {New York :}, year = {2010}, }