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Author Mailer, Norman, author.

Title Norman Mailer : The Naked and the Dead & selected letters 1945-1946 / Norman Mailer ; J. Michael Lennon, editor.

Publication Info. New York : Library of America, 2023.

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F MAILER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MAILER, N    Check Shelf
Description x, 834 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Series The Library of America series ; 364
Library of America ; 364.
Note The Naked and the Dead originally published: New York : Rinehart & Company, 1948.
Selected Letters originally published in Advertisements for Myself and A Special Message to Subscribers from Norman Mailer.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 820-834).
Summary Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel daringly engages with the authoritarian impulses in the American character.
Subject Mailer, Norman -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area -- Fiction.
Marines -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War stories.
Added Author Lennon, Michael, editor.
Added Title Mailer : the naked and the dead & selected letters 1945-1946
Naked and the dead & selected letters 1945-1946
ISBN 9781598537437 (hardcover)
1598537431 (hardcover)
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