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In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions
an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains--and
enigmas--in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald--his
family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to
Russia, and return to an "America waiting] for him like an angry
relative whose eyes glare in the heat." Based on KGB and FBI
transcripts, government reports, letters and diaries, and Mailer's
own international research, this is an epic account of a man whose
cunning, duplicity, and self-invention were both at home in and at
odds with the country he forever altered.
Praise for "Oswald's Tale"
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"America's largest mystery has found its greatest
interpreter."--"The Washington Post Book World"
"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything
he writes has sections of headlong brilliance. . . . From the
American master conjurer of dark and swirling purpose, a moving
reflection."--Robert Stone, "The New York Review of Books"
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"A narrative of tremendous energy and panache; the author at the
top of his form."--Christopher Hitchens, "Financial Times"
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"The performance of an author relishing the force and reach of his
own acuity."--Martin Amis, "The Sunday Times "(London)
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Praise for Norman Mailer
" Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger
than any other writer of his generation."--"The New York Times"
"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent."--"The New
Yorker"
"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure."--"The Washington
Post"
"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind."--"Life"
"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything
he writes has sections of headlong brilliance."--"The New York
Review of Books"
"The largest mind and imagination in modern] American literature .
. . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James,
Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each
new book."--"Chicago Tribune"
"Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through
the story like a leaf on a stream."--"The Cincinnati Post"
Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer with a penchant for nicotine,
alcohol and blondes with money, struggles towards consciousness
twenty-four days and nights after his wife has left him. He has a
bad case of alcohol amnesia, a fresh and throbbing tattoo and a car
drenched in blood. Just to make his hangover complete,
Provincetown's Chief of Police would like a quiet word... So begins
Madden's disquieting journey into the dark recesses of America's
psyche. TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE is Norman Mailer at his tough, raw
and uncompromising best. And Madden's tormented efforts to
reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening turn,
inevitably into fragments of the American Nightmare.
"The Faith is the bible of graffiti. It forever captures the
place, the time, and the writings of those of us who made it
happen." --Snake I
In 1973, author Norman Mailer teamed with photographer Jon Naar
to produce The Faith of Graffiti, a fearless exploration of the
birth of the street art movement in New York City. The book coupled
Mailer's essay on the origins and importance of graffiti in modern
urban culture with Naar's radiant, arresting photographs of the
young graffiti writers' work. The result was a powerful,
impressionistic account of artistic ferment on the streets of a
troubled and changing city--and an iconic documentary record of a
critical body of work now largely lost to history.
This new edition of The Faith of Graffiti, the first in more
than three decades, brings this vibrant work--the seminal document
on the origins of street art--to contemporary readers. Photographer
Jon Naar has enhanced the original with thirty-two pages of
additional photographs that are new to this edition, along with an
afterword in which he reflects on the project and the meaning it
has taken on in the intervening decades. It stands now, as it did
then, as a rich survey of a group of outsider artists and the body
of work they created--and a provocative defense of a generation
that questioned the bounds of authority over aesthetics.
"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a
pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair
was conceivably with the camera," wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973
biography, Marilyn. Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text
with Bert Stern's photographs from the legendary Last
Sitting-widely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe
ever taken-to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the
time of her death in 1962, was the world's most famous, a symbol of
glamour and eroticism for an entire generation. But though she was
feted and adored by her public, her private life was that of a
little girl lost, desperate to find love and security. Mailer's
Marilyn is beautiful, tragic, and complex. As Mailer reflects upon
her life-from her bleak childhood through to the mysterious
circumstances of her death-she emerges as a symbol of the bizarre
decade during which she reigned as Hollywood's greatest female
star. This book, conceived by Lawrence Schiller, Mailer's
collaborator on five works, combines the author's masterful text
with Stern's penetrating images of the 36-year-old Marilyn.
Photographed for Vogue magazine over three days at the Bel-Air
Hotel, Marilyn had never allowed such unfettered access, nor had
she looked so breathtakingly beautiful. Six weeks later,
mysteriously, she was dead. In this bold synthesis of literary
classic and legendary portrait-sitting, Mailer and Stern lift the
veils of confusion surrounding Monroe-the woman, the star, the sex
symbol-and offer profound insight into an iconic figure whose true
personality remains an enigma even today.
Michael Mann's biopic Ali starring Will Smith, Jon Voight and Jamie Foxx opens on general release in January 2002. Read more about Muhammad Ali in the Penguin Modern Classic The Fight. With the real Muhammed Ali involved in the filmmaking, Ali takes us straight into the heart of the ring, the strategy sessions and straight into the mind and body of the man. Will Smith trained for a year before filming, transforming himself from a 185 pound actor to a 220 pound athlete. Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. 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'. Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds, two iron wills and monumental egos.
One of the first examples of "new journalism" daringly combines reportage with a novelistic style and garnered Mailer his first Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award in 1968.
"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 any doubt that he possesses the largest mind and imagination at work in American literature today." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Narrated by Harry Hubbard, a second-generation CIA man, HARLOT'S GHOST looks into the depths of the American soul and the soul of Hugh Tremont Montague, code name Harlot, a CIA man obsessed. And Harry is about to discover how far the madness will go and what it means to the Agency and the country.... A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
On October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of
Africa, two boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to
confront each other in an epic match. One was Muhammad Ali, who
vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other was George
Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble and who kept his
hands in his pockets "the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its
velvet case." Observing them both was Norman Mailer, whose grasp of
the titanic battle's feints and stratagems-and sensitivity to their
deeper symbolism-made his 1975 book The Fight a masterpiece of
sportswriting. Whether analyzing the fighters' moves, interpreting
their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African
and American souls, Mailer was a commentator of unparalleled
acumen-and surely one of the few intrepid enough to accompany Ali
on a late-night run through the bush. Through The Fight he restores
our tarnished notions of heroism to a blinding gleam, and
establishes himself as a champion in his own right. Over four
decades after its original publication, this edition of The Fight
has been introduced and abridged by Mailer scholar J. Michael
Lennon and illustrated for the first time with principal
photography by the two men who captured Ali and Foreman in the ring
and in private like no one else: Neil Leifer and Howard L. Bingham.
Widely considered to be the greatest sports photographer of his
generation, Neil Leifer's vibrant color coverage dominates from
ringside. It also serves as a living testimony to the pageantry,
sheer physical power, and deep psychological interplay of the
fighters, their camps, and their controversial host, Zaire's
President Mobutu Sese Seko. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, Howard
Bingham was Ali's constant companion, documenting his every move
from the moment he stepped off the plane in Zaire, his daily
training regime, right through to the dressing room tension as he
prepared to face Foreman once and for all. Together with pictures
from other photojournalists, reproductions of Mailer's original
manuscript pages, and additional visual documentation of the media
frenzy surrounding the "Rumble in the Jungle," the result is a
dazzling tribute to The Champ and a vivid document of one of the
most epic, adrenaline-laced events in sporting history.
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. One part Nietzsche, one
part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs
the reader by the throat and refuses to let go.
The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death not only examines
the enfant terrible writer's thoughts on cinema, but also features
interviews with Norman Mailer himself. The Cinema of Norman Mailer
also explores Mailer's cinema through previously published and
newly commissioned essays written by an array of film and literary
scholars, enthusiasts, and those with a personal, philosophical
connection to Mailer. This volume discusses the National Book Award
and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and filmmaker's six films created
during the years of 1947 and 1987, and contends to show how
Mailer's films can be best read as cinematic delineations that
visually represent many of the writer's metaphysical and
ontological concerns and ideas that appear in his texts from the
1950s until his passing in 2007. By re-examining Mailer's cinema
through these new perspectives, one may be awarded not just a
deeper understanding of Mailer's desire to make films, but also
find a new, alternative vision of Mailer himself. Norman Mailer was
not just a writer, but more: he was one of the most influential
Postmodern artists of the twentieth century with deep roots in the
cinema. He allowed the cinema to not only influence his aesthetic
approach, but sanctioned it as his easiest-crafted analogy for
exploring sociological imagination in his writing. Mailer once
suggested, "Film is legitimately more interesting than books..."
and with that in mind, readers of Norman Mailer might begin to
rethink his oeuvre through the viewfinder of the film medium, as he
was equally as passionate about working within cinema as he was
about literature itself.
The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of
the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its
subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man
in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf from birth
through adolescence and offers revealing portraits of Hitler's
parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that
eclipsed the twentieth century, Mailer's novel""delivers myriad
twists and surprises along with characteristically astonishing
insights into the struggle between good and evil that exists in us
all.
Praise for "The Castle in the Forest"
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"This remarkable novel about the young Adolf Hitler, his family
and their shifting circumstances, is Mailer's most perfect
apprehension of the absolutely alien. . . . Mailer doesn't inhabit
these historical figures so much as possess them."--"The New York
Times Book Review"
"Terrifically creepy . . . an icy and convincing portrait of the
dictator as a young sociopath."--"Entertainment Weekly"
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"The work of a bold and confident writer who may yet be seen as
the preeminent novelist of our time . . . a source of tremendous
narrative pleasure . . . Every character . . . lives and
breathes."--South Florida "Sun-Sentinel"
"Blackly hilarious, beautifully written . . . "The Castle in the
Forest"] has vigor, excitement, humor and vastness of
spirit."--"The New York Observer"
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Praise for Norman Mailer
" Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger
than any other writer of his generation."--"The New York Times"
"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent."--"The New
Yorker"
"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure."--"The Washington
Post"
"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind."--"Life"
"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything
he writes has sections of headlong brilliance."--"The New York
Review of Books"
"The largest mind and imagination in modern] American literature .
. . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James,
Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each
new book."--"Chicago Tribune"
"Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through
the story like a leaf on a stream."--"The Cincinnati Post"
"From the Hardcover edition."
In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally
published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a
character who might be a fictional precursor of the
philosopher-killer he would later profile in "The Executioner's
Song." 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.
One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker,
"An American Dream "grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to
let go.
Praise for "An American Dream"
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"Perhaps the only serious New York novel since "The Great
Gatsby.""--Joan Didion, "National Review"
"A devil's encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires . . .
the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative
mind."--"Life"
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"A work of fierce concentration . . . perfectly, and often
brilliantly, realistic with] a pattern of remarkable imaginative
coherence and intensity."--"Harper's"
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"At once violent, educated, and cool . . . This is our history as
Hawthorne might have written it."--"Commentary"
Praise for Norman Mailer
" Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger
than any other writer of his generation."--"The New York Times"
"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent."--"The New
Yorker"
"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure."--"The Washington
Post"
"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind."--"Life"
"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything
he writes has sections of headlong brilliance."--"The New York
Review of Books"
"The largest mind and imagination in modern] American literature .
. . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James,
Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each
new book."--"Chicago Tribune"
"Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through
the story like a leaf on a stream."--"The Cincinnati Post"
A Real Life BDSM Memoir: Laura, 27, lingerie model whoring in a
fancy bordello to pay off her husband's gambling debt meets
Jeffrey, 33, Apple Records media wizard and creator of the
celebrated sex magazine, Puritan, and so begins this true shameless
hilarious erotic cyclone. "Funny, salacious, perversely-dare I say
it? Uplifting " From the Foreword bequeathed by Norman Mailer "One
of the best non-fiction works I've ever read." From the
Introduction by Legs McNeil
Writers have long been attracted to boxing. Hemingway, Mailer,
Algren, Plimpton, Oates, and many others have stepped into the
ring--at least in spirit--to give voice to an otherwise wordless
sport, to celebrate that "sweet science," and to bear witness to
its romance and tragedy. In this acclaimed book, hailed by Norman
Mailer as an "impressive event," we are brought for the first time
into the ring for a close-up look at the "manly art" through the
eyes of Jose Torres, a man who was a great boxer himself. When
former light-heavyweight world champion Torres traded in his gloves
for a typewriter, boxing finally found its eyewitness.
In the classic "Sting Like a Bee," Torres turns his well-trained
eye on one of the most celebrated and controversial athletes of all
time: Muhammad Ali. In this penetrating view of Ali and the world
of prizefighting, told by a true insider and "boxing's Renaissance
man," Torres delivers exciting and explicit accounts of all of
Ali's major fights with the cool authenticity of one who has lived
it.
'Genius' The New York Times In 1973, Norman Mailer published
Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn
Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work
was immediately acclaimed - and an enduring bestseller, rumoured to
have sold more copies than any of his other works except The Naked
and the Dead. Yet, until now, it has never been made available in
an accessible mass-market paperback edition. This is one of
America's greatest writers taking on the legend of one of
Hollywood's greatest stars.
One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2.
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 forever the popular perception of warfare.
Focusing on the experiences of a fourteen-man platoon stationed on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific during World War II, and written in a journalistic style, it tells the moving story of the soldiers' struggle to retain a sense of dignity amidst the horror of warfare, and to find a source of meaning in their lives amisdst the sounds and fury of battle.
About the author
Consagrado ya como uno de las grandes patriarcas de la literatura
norteamericana contemporanea, Mailer sera, sin embargo, genio y
figura hasta el fin, y la vejez no ha atemperado su espiritu
iconoclasta y combativo, ni su capacidad para sorprender al lector.
En esta novela, publicada en 1955 y uno de sus titulos mas
misticos, Mailer se propuso, segun sus propias palabras, escribir
una novela sobre el sexo. Pero el sexo entendido como la ultima
frontera de la literatura aun no explorada enteramente, ni agotada,
por los novelistas del siglo diecinueve y la primera mitad del
veinte. Calificada tambien como una historia de amor y odio con
Hollywood, pocas veces las grandezas y las miserias del mundo del
cine y sus merodeadores han sido expuestas con tal desnudez, con
tamana causticidad. B+Solo un escritor con el inmenso y subversivo
talento de Norman Mailer podria haber escrito este libroB; (The New
Yorker). Norman Mailer (New Jersey, 1923) es uno de los mayores
escritores norteamericanos contemporaneos, asi como una figura
central en el panorama cultural: novelista, director de cine,
activista politico, aspirante a alcalde de Nueva York y enfant
terrible todo terreno. Su primera novela, Los desnudos y los
muertos, sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial, lo catapulto a la fama.
Despues ha publicado mas de veinte libros, entre novelas,
reportajes y ensayos, con los que ha obtenido los mas prestigiosos
premios literarios. Dos de ellos fueron galardonados con el
Pulitzer, Los ejercitos de la noche (que obtuvo tambien el National
Book Award) y La cancion del Verdugo, ambos publicados por
Anagrama, al igual que Los tipos duros no bailan y El parque de los
ciervos.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN In 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 ten years.
But Gary Gilmore wanted to die, and his ensuing battle with the
authorities for the right to do so made him into a world-wide
celebrity - and ensured that his execution turned into the most
gruesome media event of the decade.
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