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Time of Our Time by Norman Mailer (1998, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100375500979
ISBN-139780375500978
eBay Product ID (ePID)663078
Product Key Features
Book TitleTime of Our Time
Number of Pages1216 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicGeneral
GenreFiction, Literary Collections
AuthorNorman Mailer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2.4 in
Item Weight60.7 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-044879
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsA 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 Decimal814.5/4
SynopsisNorman 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 NumberPS3525.A4152A6 1998
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