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Norman Mailer
The novelists interpretes and dramatizes the October 1967 anti-war demonstration in Washington and the issues and politics involved.
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Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman’s genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and ‘he kept them in…
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In honor of his eightieth birthday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author reflects on writing and the writing life, sharing his thoughts on such topics as the limits and attractions of nonfiction…
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of murderer Gary Gilmore’s desire to die. In 1976 he robbed two men and then shot them in cold blood. His subsequent battle with the authorities…
‘A huge, sprawling, deeply intelligent epic’ - Observer
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Based on Mailer’s own experiences of military service in the Philippines during World War II, this novel follows the story of a platoon of young American soldiers as they fight…
The author tells the tale of a fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaeire, in 1975, for which each fighter was paid five millions dollars.
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For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer-the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction-wrote…
A journey into the dark recesses of the American psyche in which a hapless writer with a passion for drink and rich women finds he has a bad case of…
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This volume is for undergraduate and graduate students as well as academic scholars. The short, focused chapters offer students clear and concise overviews of contexts that shape Mailer’s work, without…
Conversations with the genre-bending creator of The Naked and the Dead, Executioner’s Song, and Armies of the Night
Sandy Cohen
J Michael Lennon
Includes bibliographical references (p. [907]-914) and index.
Andrew Wilson
This book is a comprehensive study of the work of the American author Norman Mailer, charting his response to critical events in his country’s development since 1945. Focusing on Mailer’s…
Jerry Schuchalter
The study situates Norman Mailer in the tradition of Modernism, showing how he imbibed the worldview of a coterie of male modernist writers who imposed their notions of art and…
Mailer wrote almost 50,000 letters over the course of his life, keeping a copy of almost every one of them. He corresponded with presidents and politicians, artists and athletes, writers…
Focuses on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity.
Originally published in 1959, this is a collection of Mailer’s stories, essays, polemic, meditations and interviews. It may be considered both as a chronicle of a crucial era in the…
A startling portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald by the world-renowned author of The Executioner’s Song. Mailer reconstructs the life of this curiously adventurous if doom-laden young man, giving a full…
A novel of the life of Jesus, this highly readable account tells of a man thrust forward by the visions he receives, the sermons he offers, and the miracles he…
A key backlist title from the highly acclaimed author of The Naked and the Dead and The Fight.
It is the story of Adolf Hitlers childhood as seen through the eyes of Dieter, a demon sent to put him on his destructive path. The novel explores the idea…
Reissue of a modern classic - the book that catapulted Norman Mailer to fame on its first publication in 1948.
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Crossing three millennia to Pharaonic Egypt, this tale returns to that land’s essences - the war, magic, gods, death and reincarnations, the lusts, ambitions, jealousies, and betrayals.
Mailers first major work of fiction in more than a decade, and a work of stunning originality, explores the evil of Adolf Hitler. A tapestry of unforgettable characters, this work…
Originally published: New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1955.
Originally published: New York: D.I. Fine, 1968.
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A metaphysical thriller set in the world of the CIA between Berlin in the 1950s and the assassination of JFK in 1963. In it, Norman Mailer created a tough, dangerous…
Desert D'Or is the fashionable Californian resort where Hollywood’s elite converge when they need a break. When Sergius O'Shaughnessy, recently discharged from the Air Force, arrives, he finds his burning…
* A literary event: one of the world’s greatest novelists confronts the greatest story ever told - and in the first person
A novel about a hunting trip in Alaska which turns into an initiation rite. Vietnam is mentioned only once and the book can be seen either as an allegory or…
Wounded during World War II, Mike Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. But when Lovett rents a room in Brooklyn, he finds…
Offers an in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe.
Tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. This book is suffused with Mailer’s obsession both with the astronauts themselves and with his own anxieties and terrors about…
First published in 1965, this is the story of Stephen Rojack, war hero, politician, TV personality, who after murdering his rich and beautiful wife is catapulted into an alien world…
Mailers major works have engaged such themes as war, politics, culture, and sex. Now he gives us fresh ways to think about the largest subject of them all.
The story of Gary Gilmore, a man in the State Penitentiary of Utah who chose death over endless appeals and an anguished wait on death row. The incredible story, based…
Argues that the origins of the war in Iraq lie more in the ambitions of President Bush than in fear of terrorism or distaste for the Iraqi government’s human rights…
Susan Mailer
Norman Mailer, Susan Mailer’s father, was among the most celebrated, talented, and controversial writers of the 20th Century. The Naked and the Dead (1948), inspired by his experience in World…
Hans Joachim Stute
Die Bewahrung individueller Freiheit in einer kollektiven Welt ist die grosse Problemstellung in Mailers Werk. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Mailers Losungskonzept, den amerikanischen Existenzialismus. Er unterscheidet sich radikal von europaischen…
