The naked and the dead

Literature & Fiction

Mailer,Norman

Contemporary

Edito-Service]

Reissue of a modern classic -- the book that catapulted Norman Mailer to fame on its first publication in 1948. Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, 'The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forever the popular perception of warfare. Focusing on the experiences of a fourteen-man platoon stationed on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific during World War II, and written in a journalistic style, it tells the moving story of the soldiers' struggle to retain a sense of dignity amidst the horror of warfare, and to find a source of meaning in their lives amisdst the sounds and fury of battle.

The Naked and the Dead

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

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 a symbolic psychic explanation of America’s fighting in Vietnam. The author has won the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award for Arts and Letters (1969) and the 14th Annual Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts, McDowell Colony (1973).

Why are we in Vietnam?: A novel

Henry Holt Company

Good paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked except for highlighting in intro. Covers show light edge wear. Crease on spine.

The naked and the dead (Rinehart editions)

The Faith of Graffiti is the classic, definitive look at the birth of graffiti as an art form, pairing the fascinating 1974 essay by Norman Mailer—National Book Award and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Naked and the Dead and The Executioner’s Song—with the stunning, iconic photography of internationally acclaimed photographer Jon Naar. Back in print for the first time in three decades and expanded with 32 pages of additional photos, The Faith of Graffiti is a landmark in the history of street art: an essential, contemporary, and still-relevant meditation, in words and pictures, on the meaning of identity, property, and city life.

The Faith of Graffiti

Arts & Photography

Naar, Jon

History & Criticism

It Books

The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer, Hutchinson, 1979, 1st edition (UK).1,056 pages. Dust jacket. Description: Book; Blue cloth with both silver and copper lettering to spine only, publisher's motif embossed on the cover, goldenrod endpapers. Dust jacket; Black wraparound design with white lettering over and under sunset photograph by Roger Ward, author's photo on back cover. Not price clipped. Condition: Book; Near fine. Bright and clean covers and pages with no marks. Rubbing to lower edge of spine, some dust to front and back boards. Autopen-signature on Title page, title page professionally laid in from identical book that had water damaged to boards and other pages. Book is Pulitzer Prize winner. Mailer "longpen" signed books at the 6/16/07 Edinburgh International Book Festival when health prevented him attending in person. It is not known if this is the first and/or only time the author used a autopen. Dust jacket; Near fine. Bright and clean, not price clipped, no marks or tears, very light crease to three of the points, else fine.

The Executioner's Song

Little. Brown and Company

Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the American Political Conventions of 1968

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Penguin

Norman Mailer's, "The Fight" focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. 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 his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds, two iron wills and monumental egos.

Norman Mailer The Fight (Penguin Modern Classics) /anglais

Sports & Outdoors

Penguin Uk

Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themselves and with his own anxieties and terrors about the extremity of what they were trying to achieve. Mailer is both admiring and appalled and the result is a book which is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant depiction of the now-forgotten technical issues and uncertainties around the mission. A Fire on the Moon is also a matchless portrait of an America caught in a morass of introspection and misery, torn apart by the war in Vietnam. But for one, extraordinary week in the summer of 1969 all eyes were on the fates of three men in a rocket, travelling a quarter of a million miles away from Earth. With an introduction by Geoff Dyer.

A Fire on the Moon (Penguin Modern Classics)

History

World

Penguin Classics

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