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(0)Norman Mailer
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Published on the centenary of Norman Mailer's birth, a timely and urgent call to preserve our democracy.
From his bestselling first novel, The Naked and the Dead, to his last work, American democracy was a lifelong project for Norman Mailer. It was his grand theme. Nearly all of his books touched on the pros and cons, the strengths and weaknesses, the grace (to use his word) and fragility of the American experiment as well as the threats to it-from...
3) El combate
Author
Language
Español
Description
El 30 de octubre de 1974 tuvo lugar en el Estadio 20 de Mayo de Kinshasa, Zaire (hoy República Democrática del Congo), uno de los combates de boxeo más célebres de la historia del pugilismo. Enfrentó al vigente campeón de los pesos pesados, George Foreman, un púgil de una agresividad e instinto asesino sin parangón, y al que probablemente fue el más grande boxeador de todos los tiempos y un icono del siglo XX, Cassius Clay, rebautizado como...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
477 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious SS man offers an insightful glimpse of the life and career of Adolf Hitler, offering a unique perspective on his family, his childhood and adolescence, and the evolution of the man who became the personification of evil.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In On God, Norman Mailer, a towering figure in American literature, explores his concept of the nature of God. In a series of probing, challenging, and uncommon dialogues, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, one that rejects both organized religion and atheism. He presents a view in which our world is created by an artistic God who often succeeds but can also fail in the face of determined opposition by contrary powers in the universe.
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