Best Selling Books by Norman Mailer

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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy''s call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. And no one captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer.

Norman Mailer''s pro-JFK profile and seminal New Journalism showpiece "Superman Comes to the Supermarket," originally published in Esquire in 1960, now rediscovered in photo book form. Alongside the complete Mailer portrait of JFK as the "existential hero," see Kennedy''s campaign and personal life captured by such photojournalistic greats as...

“I see God,” wrote Norman Mailer, “as a Creator, as the greatest artist. I see human beings as His most developed artworks.” In these moving, amusing, and probing dialogues conducted in the years before his death, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, rejecting both organized religion and atheism. He avows that sensual pleasures were bestowed on us by God; he finds fault with the Ten Commandments; and he holds that technology was the Devil’s most brilliant creation. In short, Mailer is original and unpredictable in this inspiring journey, in which “God needs us as much as we need God.” Praise for On God “[Norman Mailer’s] theology is not theoretical to him. After eight decades, it is what he believes. He expects no adherents, and does not profess to be a prophet, but he has worked to forge his beliefs into a coherent catechism.”—New York “The glory of an original mind in full provocation.”—USA Today “At once illuminating and exciting . . . a chance to see Mailer’s intellect as well as his lively conversational style of speech.”—American Jewish Life “Remarkable . . . [Mailer’s] a believer—in his own fashion. . . . He has made [God] into a complex character.”—The Globe and Mail 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

THE TIME OF OUR TIME is a selection of Mailer''s best work, chosen by Mailer himself, and ingeniously arranged as a literary retrospective. It is a masterly, boisterous portrait of our times, seen through the fiction and reportage of a great writer. Included are passages from THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT and THE EXECUTIONER''S SONG, as well as many of his other works and his best-known magazine pieces from Marilyn Monroe to Madonna. This giant omnibus is a testament to Mailer''s enormous energies, his vast curiosity, and his amazing talent and amounts almost to a self-chosen literary ''autobiography''.

In this landmark work of journalism, Norman Mailer reports on the presidential conventions of 1968, the turbulent year from which today’s bitterly divided country arose. The Vietnam War was raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy had just been assassinated. In August, the Republican Party met in Miami and picked Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats backed Lyndon Johnson’s ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupted. Antiwar protesters filled the streets and the police ran amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike, all broadcast on live television—and captured in these pages by one of America’s fiercest intellects. Praise for Miami and the Siege of Chicago “For historians who wish for the presence of a world-class literary witness at crucial moments in history, Mailer in Miami and Chicago was heaven-sent.”—Michael Beschloss, The Washington Post “Extraordinary . . . Mailer [predicted that] ‘we will be fighting for forty years.’ He got that right, among many other things.”—Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic “Often reads like a good, old-fashioned novel in which suspense, character, plot revelations, and pungently describable action abound.”—The New York Review of Books “[A] masterful account . . . To understand 1968, you must read Mailer.”—Chicago Tribune

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...

The final previously unpublished work from two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the National Book Award, Norman Mailer. Norman Mailer is one of America''s most consequential public intellectuals of the postwar period. He cofounded the Village Voice, and he was the author of twelve novels, among them The Naked and the Dead and Harlot’s Ghost, as well as numerous works of nonfiction. He is truly one of the giants of American literature. Lipton''s, A Marijuana Journal is the only work by Norman Mailer that has not been published previously. Written between 1954-55, from December to March, it contains many ideas he would develop in his later work. The journal includes daily musings, as well as thoughts profound. It is a must-read for Norman Mailer scholars, as well as literature professors. Lipton’s, A Marijuana Journal also includes never before published letters between Robert Lindner (author of Rebel Without a Cause, Prescription for a Reberllion, and The 50 Minute Hour) and Norman Mailer. They introduce the reader to Mailer’s state of mind during the time he was writing the journal and to the unique relationship he had with Dr. Lindner.

Snapshot of America at a crucial moment of transition.

"The deer park is set in the town of Desert D''Or, a man-made oasis of bars, neon signs, motels, and gambling clubs located in the desert just over the mountains from California. To Desert D''Or come the Hollywood contingents of aspiring movie stars, black-listed writers, call girls, pimps, and paternalistic studio officials -- all to enact in the strenuousness of their leisure-taking, the fevered dreams, sexual conflicts, and sputtering hopes of a rich, but lost, society."--Book jacket.

Los desnudos y los muertos apareció en los Estados Unidos en mayo de 1948, exactamente tres años después del día de la victoria de los aliados en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Norman Mailer tenía entonces veintiséis años, y tras graduarse en Harvard y alistarse en el ejército había estado entre las tropas que ocuparon Japón después de la derrota. La crítica calificó su obra como «la más grande novela de guerra escrita en este siglo», que con el tiempo se ha convertido en un libro mítico. Mailer fue comparado con Hemingway y Tolstói y se situó de inmediato entre los grandes de la literatura americana. En Anopopei, un pequeño islote del Pacífico en forma de ocarina, un universo cerrado donde rigen leyes y sentimientos muy diferentes de los de la vida de los civiles, una patrulla de jóvenes soldados, microcosmos de la sociedad americana –están Hearn, un joven intelectual que lee a Rilke; el realista e implacable sargento Croft; Ridges, un campesino sureño; Red Valsen, minero de Montana y anarcosindicalista; Gallagher, un irlandés católico de los barrios bajos de Boston y, planeando sobre to- dos ellos, la poderosa sombra del general Cummings, nacido en la América más profunda e integrista, secretamente fascinado por el nuevo orden del fascismo...–, es enviada en una misión de reconocimiento, una larga marcha por un terreno desconocido y lleno de minas que acabará en una pesadilla de abyección y heroísmo, posiblemente tan gratuita como la guerra misma. Empujados al último límite, permanentemente desnudos ante la muerte, los héroes de Mailer cuestionan las verdades del pasado y la vigencia de los ideales americanos, viven obsesionados por el sexo y padecen y hacen padecer a otros las corrupciones y arbitrariedades del poder.

Il 30 ottobre 1974 a Kinshasa, nello Zaire, si fece la storia della boxe. Il leggendario Muhammad Ali, dalla personalità magnetica e dal carisma devastante, combattè contro il campione del mondo dei pesi massimi in carica George Foreman, il cui talento si alimentava di silenzio e concentrazione. Due campioni molto diversi, nella personalità ma anche nello stile di combattimento, diedero vita a quello che è considerato uno dei match più belli della storia. Uno scontro fatto non solo di forza fisica, ma anche di intelligenza, tattica, strategia e di resistenza mentale. Norman Mailer, con il talento del grande giornalista, la prosa del romanziere e la passione del pugile dilettante, segue la preparazione dei due campioni, interagisce con entrambi e con i loro entourage, si allena con Ali, intervista Foreman, vive a Kinshasa, studia la storia e la filosofia africane, e racconta tutto regalandoci un ritratto indimenticabile dei due protagonisti e un affresco accuratissimo di tutto ciò che li circondava. Questo libro, infatti, è ben più del racconto di un grande momento di sport, è anche un viaggio nella mentalità dei campioni, nelle loro debolezze, nella cultura africana e in quella americana del periodo e nel suo non detto, nel confronto tra due uomini, due pugili, ma anche tra due modi di vedere il mondo e di affrontare le sfide, raccontati in un’opera che travalica i confini del reportage sportivo per diventare grande letteratura.

Le roman le plus audacieux de Norman Mailer. Au milieu des cactus sauvages, à trois cents kilomètres de Hollywood, se cache une oasis privilégiée nommée Désert-d''Or. Lorsque Sergius, aviateur fraîchement rentré de la guerre de Corée, s''installe un peu par hasard dans ce jardin d''Éden où seul le plaisir compte, il se retrouve soudainement entraîné avec son ami Charley dans une ronde folle, passant d''amours en ruptures, jusqu''à en perdre la tête. Dans ce roman des sixties, placé au cœur de l''histoire des années noires du maccarthysme, du milieu du cinéma et de la révolution sexuelle, Mailer dresse un portrait légendaire de la machinerie américaine du désir, et met en lumière les chimères éternelles du sentiment amoureux. ---------------------------------------- " Un portrait cinglant de Hollywood, parsemé de passages brillants et éclairants. " The New York Times " Mailer nous fait traverser Le Parc aux cerfs à une vitesse vertigineuse. C''est un voyage à travers un pays inconnu, un temps amusant, puis totalement déconcertant. " The New Yorker " Mailer est indispensable, un trésor américain. " The Washington Post

"Il n’y a donc aucune raison de s’étonner si le monde comprend si mal la personnalité d’Adolf Hitler... il est l’homme le plus mystérieux de ce siècle. Pourtant je dirai que je comprends parfaitement sa psychologie. C’était mon client."

Et udvalg af noveller fra samlingen: The short fiction of Norman Mailer, og et udvalg af faglitterære artikler fra samlingen: Existential errands

In this book, Mailer sets out to capture the meaning of Picasso''s life & art & explores in bold fashion the originality of his ambition. He argues that to understand Picasso in his early years -- a period that included his most revolutionary works -- it is necessary to follow his relationship with the extraordinary Fernande Olivier, with whom he lived for 7 years. She is given her own voice by way of excerpts from her candid memoirs, hitherto unpublished in English. Since this period also includes Picasso''s friendships with Apollinaire & Gertrude Stein, the book evokes the charm & special character of bohemian life in Paris in the early 1900s. Illustrated.

Of all the most iconic figures covered by Norman Mailer in his esteemed career—including Muhammad Ali, Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, Lee Harvey Oswald, Pablo Picasso—no one fascinated him more than John F. Kennedy, whose presidential campaign was the subject of Mailer’s first foray into political journalism. First published in Esquire’s November 1960 issue, the essay, which is widely considered a key turning point in the dawn of New Journalism, is on the magazine’s list of its 7 greatest stories ever published and is forever enshrined in journalism history. This book revisits the seminal text with a broad selection of photographs and memorabilia. Fans of both Mailer and JFK will rejoice in this book, whose release coincides with the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination.

Jésus de Nazareth prend enfin la parole afin de retracer sa propre histoire car, selon lui, ses disciples ont donné une version des faits parfois un peu romancée. Et c''est sous la plume de Norman Mailer que se recrée, non sans audace, la vie de celui qui depuis deux mille ans a influencé si fortement le cours de nos sociétés occidentales et gouverne nos triomphes et nos désordres, nos harmonies et nos discordes. Un Jésus inattendu, mis en scène en famille au milieu de ses frères et de son beau-père Joseph le charpentier, qui s''emporte contre son Père et tempête contre Judas, livre sans états d''âme dans un véritable évangile apocryphe ses pensées les plus intimes sur le cours de son destin. Restant que plus près du Nouveau Testament, l''auteur nous offre par cette autobiographie posthume la vision d''un Jésus encore plus humain, en proie au doute, à l''angoisse, à la peur, à la tentation, et signe ici son œuvre la plus étonnante et peut-être la plus personnelle. " Un ouvrage d''une puissance intellectuelle considérable ". Franck Kermode, The New York Review of Books " Cet Evangile possède une mystérieuse dignité biblique, le ton est subtilement pénétrant ". John Updike, The New Yorker " Le Jésus de Mailer... possède un regard aigu et le don de surprendre par des images qui cristallisent l''émotion du lecteur ". Reynold Price, The New York Times Book Review

Dans ce roman, un des meilleurs qui aient été écrits sur la seconde guerre mondiale, Norman Mailer nous montre l''horreur, la futilité et la vanité de la guerre. Un peloton de soldats américains débarque à Anopopéi, île du Pacifique. Les Japonais défendent l''île et c''est l''invasion, la longue bataille, la souffrance et la mort qui guette à chaque pas. " Voici un livre dur, déplaisant, parfois irritant, mais inoubliable. " André Maurois.