The Time of Our Time
by Norman Mailer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG-
- ISBN 10
- 0316645710
- ISBN 13
- 9780316645713
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
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
- Church Street Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001037
- Title
- The Time of Our Time
- Author
- Norman Mailer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316645710
- ISBN 13
- 9780316645713
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 16cmx24cm
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