The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America by Mailer, Norman, and Mailer, John Buffalo - 2006

Nation Books, 2006. First edition. 1st Trade PB printing.. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 218 p. Audience: General/trade. Conversation between father and son over a year, ranging in topics. Norman Mailer was 55 years his senior, notes John Buffalo mailer in his Preface; thus the span of experience and history is greater than most father-son perspectives. His father, in the Introduction, also notes there is some repetition of ideas herein due to the sources from which topics have been drawn, but that some thoughts bear repeating.