4487 records matched your query       

Author:

Mailer, Norman, author. aut.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Library of America,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

x, 834 pages : map ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Mailer, Norman--Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Fiction.
Marines--Fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War stories.

Other Authors:

Lennon, Michael, editor. edt.

Notes:

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. 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.

Series:

The Library of America series ; 364.

ISBN:

1598537431 (hardcover)
9781598537437 (hardcover)

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)