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The Time of Our Time Hardcover - 1998

by Norman Mailer


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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)


From the publisher

Imagine that Ernest Hemingway, late in his career, had decided to tell the story of his life and times through a selection of his best writing. Mailer's The Time of Our Time is such a book: a great, boisterous portrait of our times, seen through the fiction and reportage of one of our greatest writers.

Mailer selected the contents of this book both chronologically and by theme so as to tell a continuous story. Included are passages from The Naked and the Dead, The Armies of the Night, The Executioner's Song, Ancient Evenings, and Harlot's Ghost, as well as many of his other works and his best-known magazine pieces. On display here are Mailer's enormous energies, his vast curiosity, and his amazing talent. Here, too, are his errors of judgment, both personal and literary. As a writer, Mailer eschewed all limits. He went at the world like a tiger. What will surprise many readers of this retrospective work is what a shrewd and stylish tiger he was.

First Edition Identification


Random House published a First Edition in New York, 1998.

Random House Inc. published a First Edition in Westminster, Maryland, 1998.


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  • Title The Time of Our Time
  • Author Norman Mailer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 1286
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House (NY), New York
  • Date 1998
  • ISBN 9780375500978 / 0375500979
  • Weight 3.77 lbs (1.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 6.45 x 2.44 in (24.33 x 16.38 x 6.20 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97044879
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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