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  The Executioner's Song

  by Norman Mailer

  Follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, then killing them in cold blood; and, second, after being tried and convicted, for insisting on dying for his crime. To do so, he had to fight a system that seemed paradoxically intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him... (more)
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  The Naked and the Dead

  by Norman Mailer

  Follows an army platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei.
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  The Castle in the Forest

  by Norman Mailer

  Mailer has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler’s father and mother, his sisters and brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and adolescence. A tapestry of unforgettable characters, The Castle in the Forest delivers its playful twists and surprises with... (more)
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  Ancient Evenings

  by Norman Mailer

  Mailer breathes life into the figures of that era; the eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. His hero, three times reincarnated during the novel, moves in the bright sunlight of white temples, in the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow... (more)
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  Tough Guys Don't Dance

  by Norman Mailer

  Tough Guys Don’t Dance is the story of Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer addicted to bourbon, cigarettes, and blonde, careless women with money. On the twenty-fourth morning after the decampment of his wife, Patty Lareine, he awakens with a hangover, considerable sexual excitement, and, on his upper arm, a red tattoo bearing a name from the past. Of the night before, he remembers practically nothing. What he... (more)
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  Harlot's Ghost

  by Norman Mailer

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  The Armies of the Night

  History as a Novel, the Novel as History

  by Norman Mailer

  The novelists interpretes and dramatizes the October 1967 anti-war demonstration in Washington and the issues and politics involved.
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  Oswald's Tale

  by Norman Mailer

  "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 that Mailer here supplies in great force. . . . Oswald's Tale weaves a story not... (more)
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  A Ticket to the Circus

  A Memoir

  by Norris Church Mailer

  A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailer’s greatest inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda Fitzgerald before her, Norris Church Mailer has led a life as large and as colorful as her husband’s—and every bit as engaging. Growing up a strict Free Will Baptist in the South of the 1950s, Norris Church, christened Barbara Jean Davis, was... (more)
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  George, Being George

  George Plimptons Life As Told Admired Deplored and Envied by More Than 200 Friends Relatives Lovers Acquaintances Rivals—and a Few Unappreciative Observers

  by Nelson W. Aldrich

  Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center was a fashionable tenement on New York’s East Seventy-second street. Taxi drivers, hearing his address, would ask, “Isn’t that George Plimpton’s place?” George was always giving parties for his friends. It was one of the ways this generous... (more)
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  Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes

  by Bill Peschel

  Truth is stranger than fiction. If you've imagined famous writers to be desk-bound drudges, think again. Writers Gone Wild rips back the (book) covers and reveals the seamy underside of the writing life. Insightful, intriguing, and irresistibly addictive, Writers Gone Wild reveals such fascinating stories as: * The night Dashiell Hammett hired a Chinese prostitute to break up S. J. Perelman's... (more)
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  The Race to the Moon: Apollo 11

  by Norman Mailer, Colum McCann

  And the Moon came nearer... To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, TASCHEN has paired Norman Mailer's seminal text with spectacular photography from the archives of NASA and LIFE magazine and many other sources to create a unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our era. It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969 Neil... (more)
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  Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Book 4

  Hold Your Breath

  by Alfred Hitchcock

  Chosen by that master hand (with an evil eye), Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, her are stories by such great names as: H. G. Wells, Norman Mailer, Agatha Christie, Walter D. Edmonds, Geoffrey Household. They are guaranteed to stun, startle, shock and surprise.
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  Advertisements for Myself

  by Norman Mailer

  Originally published in 1959, Advertisements for Myself is an inventive collection of stories, essays, polemic, meditations, and interviews. It is Mailer at his brilliant, provocative, outrageous best. Emerging at the height of "hip," Advertisements is at once a chronicle of a crucial era in the formation of modern American culture and an important contribution to the great autobiographical tradition in... (more)
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  The Deer Park

  by Norman Mailer

  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 D'Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want—and how far the are... (more)
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  Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America

  by Jason Tanz

  Over the last quarter-century hip-hop has grown from an esoteric form of African-American expression to become the dominant form of American popular culture. Today, Snoop Dogg shills for Chrysler and white kids wear Fubu, the black-owned label whose name stands for “For Us, By Us.” This is not the first time that black music has been appreciated, adopted, and adapted by white audiences—think jazz, blues, and... (more)
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  The Spooky Art

  Thoughts on Writing

  by Norman Mailer

  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 the writer’s craft.
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  Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings

  by Norman Mailer

  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 of cocktail party chatter are depicted with humor, affection, and, above all,... (more)
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  The Presidential Papers

  by Norman Mailer

• Mystery in the mainstream: An anthology of literary crimes

  

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  Mystery in the mainstream: An anthology of literary crimes

  by Bill Pronzini