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THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT
by Mailer, Norman [ Personal Copy of Jack Kerouac ]
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New York: New American Library, 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; with a Good dust jacket. Significant toning, a few chips and tears to jacket. Text is clean and unmarked. First Printing is stated. A significant work in its own right, winning both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, this copy comes from the estate and library of Jack Kerouac. Ink stamp and embossed stamp to title page indicating this book was personally owned by Jack Kerouac, and passed to his estate. Book is accompanied by a Letter of Authenticity.
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's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT
- Author
- Mailer, Norman [ Personal Copy of Jack Kerouac ]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- New American Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
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