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The Armies of the Night; History as a Novel: The Novel as History
by Mailer, Norman
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0140029699
- ISBN 13
- 9780140029697
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1970. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Photographic paperback binding with white and pale blue coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the back strip. Black and white photograph of the author to the rear panel. Both a true rendering of the anti-Vietnam demonstration held in Washington in October 1967 and a fictional novel about American contemporary schizophrenia. Minor creasing of the lower book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Tanning of the text block edges and patchy tanning to the pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 216, [8 – of which for a further title from publishing house]pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; United States; 1960s; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0140029699. ISBN/EAN: 9780140029697. Inventory No: 0128065. . 9780140029697
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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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0128065
- Title
- The Armies of the Night; History as a Novel: The Novel as History
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140029699
- ISBN 13
- 9780140029697
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Literature, anti-Vietnam demonstration, Washington – 1967, politics, middle-aged Literature & Literary; United States; 1960s; Military & Warfare. Unbranded ISBN: 0140029699 EAN: 9780140029697 Mailer, Norman The Armies of the Ni
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About the Seller
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About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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