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Norman Mailer's Stabbing of Adele Morales: Difference between revisions
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== Critical Response== | == Critical Response== | ||
Susan Mailer, in her 2019 memoir, admits she was afraid of her father, but she also understood her fears of him: "He had stabbed his wife, my stepmother, Adele."{{ | Susan Mailer, in her 2019 memoir, admits she was afraid of her father, but she also understood her fears of him: "He had stabbed his wife, my stepmother, Adele."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} Mailer adds, "We had to deal with the shame of having a father who had almost killed his wife. A father who was famous enough so that no one ever let you forget what he had done."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} | ||
In her 1997 memoir ''The Last Party'', Adele Morales, writing as Adele Mailer, recollects of the stabbing. She recalls seeing Mailer punching people in the street. She suggests that he was delirious and couldn't "remember who he was, or what his name was."{{sfn|LA Obit|2015}} She remembers Mailer bursting into their apartment, but did not notice the knife in his hand when he rushed toward her. Morales notes that Mailer seemed indifferent while she lay on the floor bleeding.{{sfn|LA Obit|2015}} | In her 1997 memoir ''The Last Party'', Adele Morales, writing as Adele Mailer, recollects of the stabbing. She recalls seeing Mailer punching people in the street. She suggests that he was delirious and couldn't "remember who he was, or what his name was."{{sfn|LA Obit|2015}} She remembers Mailer bursting into their apartment, but did not notice the knife in his hand when he rushed toward her. Morales notes that Mailer seemed indifferent while she lay on the floor bleeding.{{sfn|LA Obit|2015}} | ||