AMERICAN MISCHIEF by ALAN LELCHUK 501 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $8.95.
For those who missed the pre-publication publicity, Alan Lelchuk's American Mischief is the novel in which Norman Mailer is shot to death by a young radical intellectual who obviously read An American Dream but forgot to close the cover before striking.
Mailer was outraged by the scene in which a character bearing his name, rank and serial number was shot by a punk recruit. Furthermore, the bullet was fired into the very end of his digestive tract from a range that politely can...
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