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Norman Mailer : four books of the 1960s
- Title
- Norman Mailer : four books of the 1960s / J. Michael Lennon, editor.
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Publication
- New York : The Library of America, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lennon, Michael
- Description
- 926 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic masterpieces. War hero, television star, existential hipster, seducer, murderer: such is the protagonist of An American Dream, Mailer's hallucinatory voyage through the dark night of an America awash in money, sex, and violence. In Why Are We in Vietnam? a motor-mouthed 18-year-old Texan on the eve of military service recounts with manic and obscene exuberance a grizzly bear hunt in Alaska that exposes the macho roots of the war. The acclaimed "non-fiction novel" The Armies of the Night (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award) and its follow-up Miami and the Siege of Chicago are on-the-scene, in-the-scene accounts of an antiwar march on the Pentagon and the party conventions of 1968, as Mailer casts himself as a player in the drama he reports, bringing a sharp and merciless eye on the decade's political upheavals.
- Series Statement
- The library of America ; 305
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. 2018
- Library of America ; 305.
- Alternative Title
- Works. 2018
- Four books of the 1960s
- 4 books of the nineteen sixties
- American dream.
- Why are we in Vietnam?
- Armies of night.
- Miami and the siege of Chicago.
- Subjects
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Public opinion
- Psychology, Pathological > Fiction
- Bear hunting > Fiction
- Interpersonal relations > Fiction
- Nineteen sixties > Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Young men > Fiction
- Texas > Fiction
- Republican National Convention (1968 : Miami Beach, Fla.)
- Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Fiction
- Alaska > Fiction
- Sex addiction > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 893-914) and index.
- Contents
- An American dream -- Why are we in Vietnam? -- The armies of the night -- Miami and the siege of Chicago.
- Call Number
- PS221
- ISBN
- 9781598535587
- 1598535587
- LCCN
- 2017939953
- OCLC
- 988856919
- Author
- Mailer, Norman.
- Title
- Norman Mailer : four books of the 1960s / J. Michael Lennon, editor.
- Publisher
- New York : The Library of America, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The library of America ; 305Library of America ; 305.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 893-914) and index.
- Added Author
- Lennon, Michael, editor.Mailer, Norman. American dream.Mailer, Norman. Why are we in Vietnam?Mailer, Norman. Armies of the night.Mailer, Norman. Miami and the siege of Chicago.
- Added Title
- American dream.Why are we in Vietnam?Armies of night.Miami and the siege of Chicago.
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 305