The Time of Our Time
by Mailer, Norman
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375500979
- ISBN 13
- 9780375500978
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Synopsis
Norman Mailer's The Time of our Time is a giant retrospective, a rich, boisterous portrait of our times seen through the fiction and reportage of one of America's greatest writers. Mailer selected and edited the contents of this work to create an ongoing narrative of events large and small that have shaped America over the last fifty years. Included are passages from The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, An American Dream, The Armies of the Night, The Executioner's Song, Ancient Evenings, and Harlot's Ghost as well as portraits of Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Madonna, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon as they appeared in some of his best magazine pieces. How readable is the result! It is as if one is being drawn into a fabulous novel with extraordinary characters, real and fictional, who appear and reappear through the years until a vast mural of America as a nation comes into focus, full of follies and blunders, surprisingly elegant and often crazy-tragic in its losses and large in its triumphs. (Goodreads)
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- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 620135
- Title
- The Time of Our Time
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375500979
- ISBN 13
- 9780375500978
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- MAILER NORMAN 1923 COLLECTED WORKS SINGLE AUTHOR MULTI FORM LITERARY COLLECTIONS GENERAL CRITICISM AMERICAN WHAR.864, , , , , , , ,
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