The Time of Our Time by Mailer, Norman - 1998

The Time of Our Time, Mailer, Norman. Random House, New York,1998. First Edition. Signed by Mailer on half title. 8vo up to 9½" tall.1286 pages. Red boards, Black spine with gilt titles. Very light shelf wear; interior pristine. Unclipped jacket has tiny closed tear top right corner and light edge ruffling. 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. **Packed weight will exceed 1kg. Additional postage will be requested **