The Time of Our Time (Signed)

Norman Mailer

ISBN 10: 0375500979 / ISBN 13: 9780375500978

Verlag: Random House, 1998

Beschreibung

[Flat signed by Norman Mailer on FEP] Hardcover and dust jacket. Minimal wear to jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xix, 1286 p. ; 25 cm. *Autographed by author.*.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2207110025

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Time of Our Time (Signed)
• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0375500979
• ISBN-13: 9780375500978
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Like New
• Signiert: Signed
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Literature and Criticism

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Inhaltsangabe

Coincident with the fiftieth anniversary of his first book, The Naked and the Dead, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers chronicles his career and his times through interrelated passages taken from his works. 35,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

<b>Norman Mailer</b> was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.  After graduating from Harvard, he served as a rifleman in the South Pacific during World War II.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.