Norman Mailer 1945-1946 (LOA #364)
The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters
$98.73
- Hardcover
924 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2023
Summary
A landmark in the modern literature of war by a still-controversial literary icon.
Includes a selection of letters—nine never before published—that reveal the real life roots of one of the greatest American debut novels of the last century.
Nearly universally praised upon publication as an achievement inviting comparison with Tolstoy and Hemingway, Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537437 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598537431 |
| Author: | Norman Mailer, J. Michael Lennon |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 924 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 136mm |
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About The Author
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was the author of more than three dozen works across a range of genres, including The Armies of the Night (1968), which won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the National Book Award, and The Executioner’s Song (1979), which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
J. Michael Lennon, emeritus professor of English at Wilkes University, is Norman Mailer’s archivist, editor, and authorized biographer, and founding president of the Norman Mailer Society. His books include Norman Mailer- A Double Life (2013) and Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014). He lives in Westport, Massachusetts.
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