The time of our time / Norman Mailer

London : Little, Brown, 1998. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.. Physical description; xix, 1286 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Selection from his works already published elsewhere; edited and arranged to create an ongoing narrative of events, which shaped America during the last fifty years. Summary; This selection of Norman Mailer's work offers a boisterous portrait of our times. The pieces were chosen by Mailer himself and are arranged as a literary retrospective. Included are passages from ""The Naked and the Dead"", ""The Armies of the Night"" the ""The Executioner's Song"", as well as many other works and magazine pieces on subjects from Marilyn Monroe to Madonna. The collection is a testament to Mailer's energy, his curiosity and his talent. Subjects; United States — Fiction. United States — History — 20th century — Fiction. Essays, journals, letters & other prose works ; Collections & anthologies of various literary forms. Political Science / General. Genre; Novel.