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Mailer wrote almost 50,000 letters over the course of his life, keeping a copy of almost every one of them. He corresponded with presidents and politicians, artists and athletes, writers...

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One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during...

One of the best American novels ever written- a rolicking, controversial New York fable As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a...

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An essential guide to the life and work of one of America's most controversial writers Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories,...

Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels' ever written October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters...

The definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman Mailer From his early 'A Credo...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the desolate flatlands of the American...

Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the...

Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between...

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Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just...

A bold and darkly funny novel about the family and early life of Adolf Hitler Who was Adolf Hitler? It's a question writers have been trying to answer for more...

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If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA darkly atmospheric noir thriller, Tough Guys Don't Dance chronicles the harrowing ordeal of Tim Madden, a...

Author: Norman MailerBinding: HardbackPublished: Books For Pleasure, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUnknown

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt a pivotal moment in American literary culture, The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction assembles some of the sharpest critical...

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I'm A Little Special- A Muhammad Ali Reader collects 30 of the best pieces ever written about this sporting legend in an anthology by the greatest about the Greatest. Muhammad...

Collecting together 30 pieces written about Muhammad Ali, the boxer's story is told in this book by an array of authors, athletes and social commentators. In addition to pieces by...

Bev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her account of those years, working...

Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A dazzling book of short stories from one of modern fiction's greatest and most imaginative writers Neil Gaiman. The distinctive genius...

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Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission...

'Norman Parkinson will never go out of style' VOGUEMeet the man who invented style. Through his beautiful photographs for British, American, French and Australian Vogue magazines, Norman Parkinson defined the...

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Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the...

From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City. "Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed...

John Updike considers it one of the less elevated impulses, Norman Mailer sees it as an inevitable conflict, Wallace Stevens saw it as one of the greatest aspects of literature....

Secondhand Biography & Literary History Bargain Book Box This collection of seventeen volumes offers a profound look at the lives of individuals who shaped literature, art, and science across the...

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Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut college boy who entered outlaw culture on a university trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into...

Author: J.Robert Lennon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Albert Lippincott is a thirty-year veteran of the Nestor, New York, Post Office - a letter carrier extraordinaire, aggressively...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few critics of the twentieth century possessed the penetrating wit and elegiac...