The Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, The Novel as History
by Mailer, Norman
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0297176277
- ISBN 13
- 9780297176275
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Weidenfeld And Nicolson, 1968. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fair. Larger, sturdy book, light brown cloth with stains, a map of Washington D.C. and the Pentagon inside covers and adjacent end papers, 288 pages. A black felt-tip crossout to portions of records on reverse of title page. Tips lightly bumped. Fair.
Synopsis
The Armies of the Night (1968) is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning nonfiction novel written by Norman Mailer and sub-titled History as a Novel/The Novel as History. Mailer essentially creates his own genre for the narrative, split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon. Mailer's unique rendition of the non-fiction novel was one of only a few at the time, and received the most critical attention. The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Depending on the paper you read, 20,000 to 200,000 protestors are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is a writer named Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day’s events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mold of traditional reportage. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 062606
- Title
- The Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, The Novel as History
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0297176277
- ISBN 13
- 9780297176275
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld And Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Pages
- 288
- Keywords
- Protests Pentagon Vietnam War
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About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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