On God
An Uncommon Conversation
Written by Norman Mailer
As told to Michael Lennon

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7940-4 (0-8129-7940-0)

The final book from Norman Mailer, towering figure of American literature, in which he offers his concept of the nature of God.

In this collection of moving, amusing, probing, and uncommon dialogues conducted over three years before his death, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, one that rejects both organized religion... Read more >

The Castle in the Forest
A Novel
Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7849-0 (0-8129-7849-8)

No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry... Read more >

Oswald's Tale
An American Mystery
Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-40437-4 (0-345-40437-8)

"Explaining Kennedy's assassination through the flaws in Oswald's character has been attempted before, notably by Gerald Posner in Case Closed and Don DeLillo in Libra. Neither handled Oswald with the kind of dexterity and literary imagination that Mailer here supplies in great force... Oswald's Tale weaves a story not only about... Read more >

The Spooky Art
Thoughts on Writing
Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7128-6 (0-8129-7128-0)

“Writing is spooky. There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words.”

In The Spooky Art, Norman Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and... Read more >

Modest Gifts
Poems and Drawings
Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7237-5 (0-8129-7237-6)

An unexpected collection from Norman Mailer—a book of his selected poems and more than one hundred of his drawings, most of them never before published. Modest Gifts is full of what the author calls “casual pleasures”—witty, naughty, and surprisingly tender verse and art. Lust, seduction, betrayal, jealousy, and even the banality... Read more >

Why Are We at War?

Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7111-8 (0-8129-7111-6)

“Because democracy is noble, it is always endangered. Nobility, indeed, is always in danger. Democracy is perishable. I think the natural government for most people, given the uglier depths of human nature, is fascism. Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy... Read more >

The Gospel According to the Son
A Novel
Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 7, 1999
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43408-1 (0-345-43408-0)

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An American Dream

Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 4, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70070-5 (0-375-70070-6)

Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman, and a certified public intellectual with his own television show.  He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly.  But one night, in the prime of his existence, he hears the moon talking to him on... Read more >

Barbary Shore

Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70039-2 (0-375-70039-0)

Mike Lovett rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. But Lovett's housemates have secrets of their own. As these mysterious figures vie for Lovett's... Read more >

The Deer Park

Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70040-8 (0-375-70040-4)

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The Fight

Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70038-5 (0-375-70038-2)

In 1975 in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other until one was declared winner. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing” who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The... Read more >

Harlot's Ghost
A Novel
Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 1168 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-37965-8 (0-345-37965-9)

The time is post-World War II; the action sweeps from Maine to Georgetown, from Moscow to Miami. Caught up in the tumultuous history that climaxes with the assassination of JFK are intelligence officer Harry Hubbard, a galaxy of fictional and real figures, and the shadows that lurk behind them all.

"The... Read more >