The Time of Our Time (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Language: English
Published by Modern Library, U.S.A., 1999
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Near Fine. Red and white paperback wraps. Inscribed on half-title page to fellow author and socialite Leila Hadley Luce.
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- Title
- The Time of Our Time (Modern Library Paperbacks)
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Publisher
- Modern Library, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375754911
- ISBN 13
- 9780375754913
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Mailer selected and edited the contents of this work to create an ongoing narrative of events large and small that have shaped America over the last fifty years. Included are passages from The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, An American Dream, The Armies of the Night, The Executioner's Song, Ancient Evenings, and Harlot's Ghost as well as portraits of Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Madonna, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon as they appeared in some of his best magazine pieces. How readable is the result! It is as if one is being drawn into a fabulous novel with extraordinary characters, real and fictional, who appear and reappear through the years until a vast mural of America as a nation comes into focus, full of follies and blunders, surprisingly elegant and often crazy--tragic in its losses and large in its triumphs.
On display here are Mailer's enormous energies, his vast curiosity, and his powers of delineation. Here too are his errors of judgment and deed, both personal and literary. As a writer, Mailer eschews all limits. He goes at the world like a tiger. What will surprise many readers of The Time of Our Time is what a shrewd and stylish tiger he has been.
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About the Author
He published his first book, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948. Mailer won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for The Armies of the Night and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song.
He has directed four feature-length films, was co-founder of The Village Voice in 1955, ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York in 1969, and was president of the American PEN from 1984 to 1986.
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