The Armies of the Night, 9780241340479
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Love, rage, and war collide in Mailer’s unforgettable Pentagon protest.

The Armies of the Night

history as a novel / the novel as history

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    18 November 2018

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Summary

The Armies of the Night: A Chronicle of Protest and Perception

October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. An estimated 20,000 to 200,000 protesters march to end the Vietnam War, under the gaze of hovering helicopters and facing federal marshals and soldiers guarding the Pentagon. Among them is Norman Mailer.

From his firsthand experience and acute observations emerges a groundbreaking work that transcends traditional reporting. Intellectuals, hippies, clergymen, cops, poets, and arm…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241340479
ISBN-10:0241340470
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
Author:Norman Mailer
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:18 November 2018
Weight:229g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 18mm
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Critics Review

Only a born novelist could have written a piece of history so intelligent, mischievous, penetrating and alive

Only a born novelist could have written a piece of history so intelligent, mischievous, penetrating and alive * The New York Times Book Review *His genuine wit and bellicose charm, and his fervent and intense sense of legitimately caring, render The Armies of the Night an artful document, worthy to be judged as literature * Time *Mesmerising, and to re-read it today is to experience an additional punch: the one that verifies that history repeats itself as (malignant) farce * Guardian *A work of personal and political reportage that brings to the inner and developing crisis of the United States at this moment admirable sensibilities, candid intelligence, the most moving concern for America itself. Mailer’s intuition in this book is that the times demand a new form. He has found it * New York Times *

About The Author

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Executioner’s Song and Harlot’s Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night, A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon) and The Fight. He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize.

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