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  • The Executioner's Song

    by Norman Mailer ...
    In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States.The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do so, he fought a system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death.Norman Mailer ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Naked and the Dead

    50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

    by Norman Mailer ...
    "The best novel to come out of the....war. Perhaps the best book to come out of any war." - The San Francisco Chronicle"The most important American novel since Moby Dick." - NewsweekHailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Mysterious Country

    The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy

    by Norman Mailer ...
    Published on the centenary of Norman Mailer’s birth, a timely and urgent call to preserve our democracyFrom his bestselling first novel, The Naked and the Dead, to his last work, American democracy was a lifelong project for Norman Mailer. It was his grand theme. Nearly all of his books touched on the pros and cons, the strengths and weaknesses, the grace (to use his word) and fragility of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ancient Evenings

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost 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. Mailer’s reincarnated protagonist is carried through the exquisite gardens of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tough Guys Don't Dance

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    “Spectacular . . . [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.”—PeopleNorman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends genre. When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • On God

    An Uncommon Conversation

    by Norman Mailer ...
    “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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why Are We in Vietnam?

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    “It is impossible to walk away from this novel without being sharply reminded of the fact that Norman Mailer is a writer of extraordinary ability.”—Chicago TribuneFeaturing a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinleyPublished nearly twenty years after Norman Mailer’s fiction debut, The Naked and the Dead, this acclaimed novel further solidified the author’s stature as one of the most ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Why Are We at War?

    by Norman Mailer ...
    Beginning with his debut masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer has repeatedly told the truth about war. Why Are We at War? returns Mailer to the gravity of the battlefield and the grand hubris of the politicians who send soldiers there to die. First published in the early days of the Iraq War, Why Are We at War? is an explosive argument about the American quest for empire that still ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Deer Park

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D’Or. It is a place for starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic, Desert D’Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want—and how far they are willing to go to get ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Harlot's Ghost

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    "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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946 (LOA #364)

    by Norman Mailer ...
    **A landmark in the modern literature of war by a still-controversial literary iconIncludes a selection of letters—nine never before published—that reveal the real life roots of one of the greatest American debut novels of the last century**Nearly universally praised upon publication as an achievement inviting comparison with Tolstoy and Hemingway, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Miami and the Siege of Chicago

    An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

    by Norman Mailer ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD