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The Time of Our Time by Norman Mailer (1998, Hardcover) SIGNED

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Condition
Very Good
A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“SHELF WEAR AND THE TOP OF THE BOOK SHOWS SPINE SEPARATION, SOME SCUFFING/MARKS ON THE PAGE SIDES OF ...
Year
1991
Signed By
Norman Mailer
Special Attributes
Signed
Signed
Yes
Narrative Type
Fiction
Original Language
English
Subject
LITERATURE RESTROSPECTIVE
ISBN
9780375500978

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375500979
ISBN-13
9780375500978
eBay Product ID (ePID)
663078

Product Key Features

Book Title
Time of Our Time
Number of Pages
1216 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
General
Genre
Fiction, Literary Collections
Author
Norman Mailer
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
2.4 in
Item Weight
60.7 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-044879
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
A giant retrospective: selections by the author of his best work--including new material for the paperback edition-- ingeniously arranged to tell the story of the past half-century "[It] is that rarity, an anthology that can be read straight through. Its neatly interwoven sections collectively tell a story of their own, a social history of postwar America, at the heart of which is Mailer's own tangled love affair with this country." --James Shapiro, The New York Times Book Review "One of the anthology's more remarkable effects is to make us forget which realm we are in--nonfiction or fiction, reality or fantasy--or why any of these categories matter. . . . In Mailer's retelling of it, the recent history of the country becomes largely its secret history; assassination plots and love affairs move the levers of reality. As readers, we happily enter a long, long night in which movie stars, Presidents, intelligence operatives, and gangsters meet in the ideal Mailer after-hours spot where only grown-ups are allowed to gather and where the music is always insinuating and sweet. The book becomes, willy-nilly, a kind of erotic commingling of these big players." --David Denby, The New Yorker "A unique, and very useful, work, and certainly the best possible introduction to one of the most prodigious careers in modern American letters." --Kirkus Reviews "An often mesmerizing attempt to reflect the times through the distorting mirror of the writer's own intense preoccupation during the 50 years since his first novel. . . . No observer has had a keener instinct for the essences of politicians' characters or for the textures of celebrated and marginal American lives, and no contemporary American writer has been less willing to say only what it is safe to say." --Entertainment Weekly Norman Mailer was born in 1923 and published his first book, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948. The Armies of the Night won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1969; Mailer received a second Pulitzer in 1980 for The Executioner's Song. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Brooklyn, New York. "No contemporary writer could match the book's variety, its manic energy, its spiritual violence and striving."--David Denby, The New Yorker
Dewey Decimal
814.5/4
Synopsis
Norman Mailer'sThe Time of Our Timeis 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. On display here are Mailer's enormous energies, his vast curiosity, and his powers of delineation.  Here too are his errors of judgment and deed, both personal and literary.  As a writer, Mailer eschews all limits.  He goes at the world like a tiger.  What will surprise many readers ofThe Time of Our Timeis what a shrewd and stylish tiger he has been.
LC Classification Number
PS3525.A4152A6 1998

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