Norman Mailer Libri

Anni Cinquanta-Sessanta, guerra fredda: sono gli anni d'oro della CIA, dell'FBI, del KGB. Così la storia di Harry Hubbard e del suo protégé, il leggendario Hugh Tremont Montague detto Harlot, diventa la storia della CIA subito dopo la guerra, quando l'intelligence era fondamentale punto di riferimento nella scala dei valori di qualunque americano medio, orgoglioso di vivere nel proprio paese. Ma l'esistenza che spie e agenti segreti conducono li costringe a rinunciare a molti dei valori di cui dovrebbero essere specchio. L'inganno e la menzogna diventano non solo una rispettabile occupazione, ma anche l'unica risorsa per sopravvivere, in una crescente confusione tra vero e falso che coinvolge anche la sfera dei rapporti personali.

Essays and Interviews with and by Norman Mailer covering the decade 1970-1980

Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel daringly engages with the authoritarian impulses in the American character

An essential guide to the life and work of one of America's most controversial writers, 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 Mailer's key beliefs contains pieces on his war experiences in the Philippines (the basis for his famous first novel The Naked and the Dead), tributes to fellow novelists William Styron, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal and magnificent polemics against pornography, advertising, drugs and politics. Also included is his notorious exposition of the phenomenon of the 'White Negro', the Beat Generation's existentialist hero whose life, like Mailer's, is 'an unchartered journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self'.

Bert Stern's "Last Sitting" photographs of Marilyn Monroe enter a dialogue with Norman Mailer's rigorous biography of the actress in this virtuoso publication. The fusion of image and text makes for an intimate portrait of an infamously enigmatic woman; a celebrity who shone even in tragedy. In this bold synthesis of literary classic and...

A work of meticulous research and breathtaking insight, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery asks the essential question about the Kennedy Assassination: Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Providing the first full account of his childhood, the years under KGB surveillance in Russia and the events from his return to the United States in 1961 to his death in Dallas. Norman Mailer brilliantly reconstructs the life of this ambitious, doom-laden young man, bringing to the task not only a sober respect for the facts but the power, as America's most distinguished novelist. To invest those facts with vibrant and haunting life.