An American Dream (1960s A Series) - Tapa blanda

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Norman Mailer was born in New Jersey in 1923. He grew up in Brooklyn and entered Harvard University to study engineering when he was only sixteen. During the Second World War, Mailer served in the Philippines, an experience which formed the basis of his famous debut novel, the bestselling The Naked and the Dead. A major figure in post-war American literature, Mailer’s other works include Barbary Shore, The Deer Park, Advertisements for Myself, Armies of the Night (for which he was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award) and, most recently, The Gospel According to the Son.

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"Mark Twain might have been more popular than Norman Mailer, and Hemingway more influential, but neither of these writers ever had so many thousands of people at their feet – and at their throats."
NEW YORK TIMES

'I was irritable suddenly, a sign of fatigue, the only sign of fatigue I could feel: my adrenaline had lit a new fire for the new drink. Sometime in the next hour of the next day would come a moment when I could lie down, when I would sleep – when I would try to – and then the memories of this night gone through would rise like the mutilated corpses of a battlefield, stare back at the battered face of Deborah which rose from each corpse.'

"Mailer writes like an angel – a master of small surprises that are precursors of seismic shocks."
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS