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Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner’s Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot’s Ghost; Oswald’s Tale; The Gospel According to the Son, The Castle and the Forest and On God. Mr. Mailer passed away on Saturday, November 10, 2007.
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The Castle in the Forest
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $16.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $16.95
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 >
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An American Dream
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 4, 1999
Price: $14.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 4, 1999
Price: $14.95
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... Read more >
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Harlot's Ghost
Format: Trade Paperback, 1168 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $16.95
"The most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced...Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book....There can no longer be... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 1168 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $16.95
"The most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced...Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book....There can no longer be... Read more >
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Barbary Shore
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $15.00
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 >
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The Deer Park
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $15.00
Amid the cactus wilds some two hudred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic of 1950s Hollywood, Desert... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $15.00
Amid the cactus wilds some two hudred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic of 1950s Hollywood, Desert... Read more >
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The Gospel According to the Son
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 7, 1999
Price: $13.95
For two thousand years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western civilization's triumphs and disasters. Now, Norman Mailer has written a novel about Jesus's life. Is God speaking to me? Jesus asks. Or am I hearing voices? If the voices are from... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 7, 1999
Price: $13.95
For two thousand years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western civilization's triumphs and disasters. Now, Norman Mailer has written a novel about Jesus's life. Is God speaking to me? Jesus asks. Or am I hearing voices? If the voices are from... Read more >
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The Spooky Art
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
In The Spooky Art, Norman Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and recommends the tools to navigate it. Addressing the reader in a conversational tone, he draws on the best of more than fifty years of his own criticism, advice, and detailed observations about... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
In The Spooky Art, Norman Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and recommends the tools to navigate it. Addressing the reader in a conversational tone, he draws on the best of more than fifty years of his own criticism, advice, and detailed observations about... Read more >
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On God
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.00
The final book from Norman Mailer, towering figure of American literature, in which he offers his concept of the nature of God
“I feel no attachment, whatsoever, to organized religion” wrote Norman Mailer. “I see God, rather, as a Creator, as the greatest artist. I see human beings as His most developed... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.00
The final book from Norman Mailer, towering figure of American literature, in which he offers his concept of the nature of God
“I feel no attachment, whatsoever, to organized religion” wrote Norman Mailer. “I see God, rather, as a Creator, as the greatest artist. I see human beings as His most developed... Read more >
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eBook.
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Oswald's Tale
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $15.95
"MARVELOUS . . . BREATHTAKING."
--The New York Times Book Review
"MAILER SHINES . . . 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. But neither handled Oswald with the kind of dexterity and literary imagination... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $15.95
"MARVELOUS . . . BREATHTAKING."
--The New York Times Book Review
"MAILER SHINES . . . 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. But neither handled Oswald with the kind of dexterity and literary imagination... Read more >
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eBook.
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Why Are We at War?
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $7.99
“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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $7.99
“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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
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Modest Gifts
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $14.95
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 >
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Why Are We at War?
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $6.67
“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 >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $6.67
“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 >
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The Spooky Art
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 21, 2003
Price: $14.95
“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 recommends... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 21, 2003
Price: $14.95
“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 recommends... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Harlot's Ghost
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $16.95
"The most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced...Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book....There can no longer be... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $16.95
"The most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced...Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book....There can no longer be... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Castle in the Forest
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $16.95
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 >
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $16.95
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 >
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trade paperback.
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Oswald's Tale
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $15.95
"MARVELOUS . . . BREATHTAKING."
--The New York Times Book Review
"MAILER SHINES . . . 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. But neither handled Oswald with the kind of dexterity and literary imagination... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $15.95
"MARVELOUS . . . BREATHTAKING."
--The New York Times Book Review
"MAILER SHINES . . . 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. But neither handled Oswald with the kind of dexterity and literary imagination... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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On God
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $26.95
A towering figure in American literature, Norman Mailer has in recent years reached a new level of accessibility and power. His last novel, The Castle in the Forest, revealed fascinating ideas about faith and the nature of good and evil. Now Mailer offers his concept of the nature of God. His... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $26.95
A towering figure in American literature, Norman Mailer has in recent years reached a new level of accessibility and power. His last novel, The Castle in the Forest, revealed fascinating ideas about faith and the nature of good and evil. Now Mailer offers his concept of the nature of God. His... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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