The Time Of Our Time

Norman Mailer

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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'.

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Praise for The Time Of Our Time

  • He is a genuine original, working against the grain of most of his contemporaries - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAmerica's best writer - OBSERVERThe book is like Mailer himself, a sprawling, raging talent, equally infuriating and captivating. - SCOTSMANYou reel at the energy, diversity and, yes, genuis displayed in this essential book. - INDEPENDENT

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Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 and published his first book,THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, in 1948. THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1969; Mailer received another Pulitzer in 1980 for THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG. He has written thirty books.

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