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PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-101598535587
ISBN-139781598535587
eBay Product ID (ePID)240338642
Product Key Features
Book TitleNorman Mailer: Four Books of The 1960s (LOA #305) : An American Dream / Why Are We in Vietnam? / the Armies of the Night / Miami Andthe Siege of Chicago
Number of Pages937 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicSubjects & Themes / Historical events, Literary, American / General
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Collections
AuthorNorman Mailer
Book SeriesLibrary of America Norman Mailer Edition Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight21.5 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-939953
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Mailer is missed: LBJ's dwarf alter ego would now be Trump's alter ego. . . . And he would have cheered any brave signs of revolt. The young lawyers rushing to airports with their laptops to help refugees after the immigrant ban, in January 2017, could be the antiwar kids of fifty years ago. But if we don't have Mailer, we have, in Armies of the Night , his gifts of observation and imagination, which turn out to be splendid armor for our own time." - - David Denby, Harper's Magazine
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisFour Mailer classics in one volume for the first time, books that crackle with the creative energy and raw passions of America's most turbulent decade No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic masterpieces. War hero, television star, existential hipster, seducer, murderer: such is the protagonist of An American Dream , Mailer's hallucinatory voyage through the dark night of an America awash in money, sex, and violence. In Why Are We in Vietnam? a motor-mouthed 18-year-old Texan on the eve of military service recounts with manic and obscene exuberance a grizzly bear hunt in Alaska that exposes the macho roots of the war. The acclaimed "non-fiction novel" The Armies of the Night (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award) and its follow-up Miami and the Siege of Chicago are on-the-scene, in-the-scene accounts of an antiwar march on the Pentagon and the party conventions of 1968, as Mailer casts himself as a player in the drama he reports, bringing a sharp and merciless eye on the decade's political upheavals. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries., Four Mailer classics in one volume for the first time, books that crackle with the creative energy and raw passions of America s most turbulent decade., No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s.
LC Classification NumberPS3525.A4152
