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A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themse ...Show more
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. ...Show more
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner’s Song. As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressm ...Show more
Enduring Justice by Thomas Roma (Photographer); Norman Mailer (Foreword by); Robert Coles (Introduction by)
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Foreword by Norman Mailer and Introduction by Robert Coles Thomas Roma, Chair of the Columbia University Department of Photography and two-time recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships, spent 14 months prowling the halls of the Brooklyn Criminal Court Building, documenting lives transformed by the workings o ...Show more
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
$37.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
This is the definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman Mailer. From his early 'A Credo for the Living', published in 1948, when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year ...Show more
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Who was Adolf Hitler? That's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it come from? Could it happen again? Norman Mailer set ...Show more
The Fight by Norman Mailer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
In 1975, at the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire, Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back ...Show more
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forev ...Show more
The Naked and the Dead (INDENT) by Norman Mailer
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Reissue of a modern classic -- the book that catapulted Norman Mailer to fame on its first publication in 1948. Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, 'The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in bat ...Show more
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