TY - BOOK N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - A ticket to the circus :a memoir / DA - c2010. CY - New York : AU - Mailer, Norris Church. ET - 1st ed. CN - PS3563.A3824 CN - PS3563.A3824 PB - Random House, PP - New York : PY - c2010. ID - 342015 KW - Authors, American KW - Authors' spouses SN - 9781400067947 (alk. paper) SN - 1400067944 (alk. paper) TI - A ticket to the circus :a memoir / ER -