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Advertisements for Myself PMC by Norman Mailer
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of ...Show more
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. ...Show more
Knockout: The Art of Boxing by Ken Regan; Muhammad Ali (Foreword by); Liam Neeson (Introduction by); Budd Schulberg (Afterword by); Norman Mailer (Commentaries by)
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Category: Sport
Chronicling the legacy of boxing's biggest names--including the great Muhammad Ali--and their impact on "the sweet science," Knockout: The Art of Boxing pays tribute to Ken Regan's incomparable photography and coverage of the sport. Ken Regan was a young photographer in 1964 when he covered Muhammad ...Show more
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
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Category: Critical Thinking
This is the definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman Mailer. From his early 'A Credo for the Living', published in 1948, when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year ...Show more
Moonfire. The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 by Norman Mailer
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Category: Science | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, after a decade of tests and training, supported by a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, and with a budget of billions, the most powerful rocket ever launched brought Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael ...Show more
Norman Mailer: MoonFire, 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
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Category: Science
It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy's call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of ...Show more
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer by J. Michael (EDT) Norman; Lennon Mailer
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Category: Biography
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Arena Bks.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ...Show more
The Fight by Norman Mailer
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Category: Sport | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Bo ...Show more
The Fight by Norman Mailer
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Category: Sport
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible professor of boxing. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator ...Show more
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 forev ...Show more
The Naked and the Dead (INDENT) by Norman Mailer
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Category: Classics | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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 bat ...Show more