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A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themse ...Show more
Advertisements for Myself PMC by Norman Mailer
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of ...Show more
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner’s Song. As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressm ...Show more
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. ...Show more
Faith of Graffiti by Mailer Norman & Naar Jon
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
"The Faith is the bible of graffiti. It forever captures the place, the time, and the writings of those of us who made it happen." --Snake I In 1973, author Norman Mailer teamed with photographer Jon Naar to produce The Faith of Graffiti, a fearless exploration of the birth of the street art movement i ...Show more
Marilyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"Genius". ("The New York Times"). In 1973, Norman Mailer published "Marilyn", his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was immediately acclaimed - and an enduring bestseller, rumoured to have sold more copies than any of hi ...Show more
Miami and the Siege of Chicago : An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 by Norman Mailer
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Category: History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: PMC: An Informal History of the Republican and democratic Conventions of 1968 by Norman Mailer
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey ...Show more
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This is 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 for the Living', published in 1948, when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year ...Show more
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
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Category: New Hardbacks
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer's most importan ...Show more