An extraordinary biography of the legendary screen star Marilyn Monroe (originally published in 1973) by Norman Mailer, one of America's most important writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Mailer, the winner of two Pullitzer Prizes, was the first writer to explore the relationship between Monroe and Bobby Kennedy. When first published, this book was the subject of Time and Life Magazine cover stories, was on the New York Times Bestseller List and became a full selection of ...

"The best novel to come out of the....war. Perhaps the best book to come out of any war." - The San Francisco Chronicle"The most important American novel since Moby Dick." - NewsweekHailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. Th...

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States.The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do so, he fought a system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death.Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's story with impressive authority and comp...

Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forever the popular perception of warfare.Focusing on the experiences of a fourteen-man platoon stationed on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific during World War II, and written i...

«Pensemos en Marilyn, que encarnaba el idilio de todo hombre con América; Marilyn Monroe, que era rubia y hermosa, y tenía un dulce hilo de voz y toda la limpidez de los límpidos jardines de las casas americanas. Ella fue nuestro ángel, el dulce ángel del sexo, y el azúcar del sexo brotaba de ella como la resonancia sonora de las más finas vetas de un violín. En los cinco continentes, los varones más versados en amores la codiciaban, y por ella palpitaban también las típicas pústulas del a...

"The most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced....Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book....There can no longer be any doubt that he possesses the largest mind and imagination at work in American literature today."CHICAGO TRIBUNENarrated by Harry Hubbard, a second-generation CIA man, HARLO...

A história do maior combate de boxe do século XX: Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman.Em 1975, no Campeonato Mundial de Boxe de Pesos-Pesados disputado em Kinshasa, Zaire, Muhammad Ali encontrou-se com George Foreman no ringue. O génio de Foreman assentava no silêncio, na serenidade e na astúcia. Nunca tinha sido derrotado. As mãos eram o seu instrumento, e «ele mantinha-as dentro dos bolsos como um caçador guarda a sua espingarda no respetivo estojo de veludo». Juntos, os dois homen...

'Genius' The New York TimesIn 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was immediately acclaimed - and an enduring bestseller, rumoured to have sold more copies than any of his other works except The Naked and the Dead. Yet, until now, it has never been made available in an accessible mass-market paperback edition.This is one of ...

In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains—and enigmas—in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald—his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an “America [waiting] for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat.” Based on KGB and FBI transcripts, government reports, letters and diaries, and Mailer’s own international research, this is an epic ac...

Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D’Or. It is a place for starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic, Desert D’Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want—and how far they are willing to go to get it. As Mailer traces their couplings and uncouplings, their uneasy flirtation with success and...

For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer—the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction—wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of America’s reach for greatness in the midst of the Cold War, Of a Fire on the Moon compiles the reportage Mailer published between 1969 and 1970 in Life magazine: gripping firsthand di...

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go.