New York:: Random House,, 1998.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dustjacket with the notation 'signed first edition' on the front cover of the dj. . First printing. One of an undisclosed number of copies SIGNED by Mailer on a tipped in page. A giant retrospective of Mailer's work, selected and edited by him to create an ongoing narrative of events that have shaped America over the past 50 years. A massive book xix, 1286 pages.

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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)

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 88746
Title: THE TIME OF OUR TIME.
Author: Mailer, Norman
Format/Binding: SIGNED hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Near fine in a fine dustjacket with the notation 'signed first edition' on the front cover of the dj.
Jacket Condition: fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375500979
ISBN 13: 9780375500978
Publisher: Random House,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: 1998.
Bookseller catalogs: Modern first editions;

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