Robert Mayer (1) (1939–)
Auteur de Super-Folks
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Robert Mayer was a journalist and author of the 1977 superhero novel Superfolks. He attended the City College of New York and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. While in journalism school he received a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, and after graduation he joined the Washington afficher plus Post before going to work for Newsday, where he spent the next 10 years of his career. After six years at Newssday, Mayer became its New York City columnist, and in 1968 he won the National Headliner Award, given to the best feature columnist in the country. In both 1969 and 1971, he won the Mike Berger Award, given for the year's best writing about New York City, and was the first person to ever win it twice. In the 1970s Mayer moved to Santa Fe, N.Mex., to concentrate on writing books. He wrote 13 novels and three works of nonfiction. Superfolks, his best-known work, is a novel meant for adults that satirizes and deconstructs the superhero genre. Robert Mayer passed away on July 23, 2019 at the age of 80, from complications from Parkinson's Disease. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Very well written. Tough read in terms of enraging and heartbreaking. I read this prior to reading John Grisham's book on the same cases so perhaps it biased me but I liked this one more and read Grisham's simply to try to find any blanks and fill them in. I just found Dreams of Ada flowed better and gave a full picture for me.
Alan Moore got a lot of his ideas (deconstructing superheroes) from this book.
An aging, flabby, power-fading super-hero is forced out of retirement by a government conspiracy and deadly threats from his past, only to discover that the world is a much darker, more cynical and dangerous place that the one he remembers from his heyday. Lashings of sex, violence and cod-psychological drama... any comic fans who grew up in the late 80s and 90s will now be crying "been there, done that, bought the T-shirt".
But wait - Robert Mayer's novel (minus the graphic) was originally published in 1977...
Read the full review at my blog.… (plus d'informations)
But wait - Robert Mayer's novel (minus the graphic) was originally published in 1977...
Read the full review at my blog.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 429
- Popularité
- #56,934
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 81
- Langues
- 4
When composite sketches brought Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot to the attention of the police, they were brought in and questioned. When both confessed on camera, that pretty much sealed the deal. It wasn’t long before they recanted – said they thought their confessions (given under pressure) would easily be exposed as lies. But, despite a LOT of inconsistencies in those confessions, the two were arrested and charged.
I didn’t know the outcome of this. I may have when I heard about the book, but by the time of reading it now, I didn’t remember. I don’t want to say too much if anyone wants to read the book to see what happened and not find out things ahead of time. Even behind my spoiler tag, I haven’t specifically said, but I expect one might be able to figure it out, so you are warned!