Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The time of our time	Norman Mailer	An anthology telling the story of Norman Mailer and his times. It comprises excerpts of his writings in magazines and novels, including The Naked and the Dead, the novel which launched him in 1948. T…	OL10426555W
The executioner's song	Norman Mailer	Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 a…	OL10426574W
The Gospel according to the Son	Norman Mailer,John Buffalo Mailer	Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer re-imagines, as n…	OL1822212W
On God	Norman Mailer	A towering figure in American literature, Norman Mailer has in recent years reached a new level of accessibility and power. His last novel, The Castle in the Forest, revealed fascinating ideas about …	OL1822214W
The Spooky Art	Norman Mailer	"In The Spooky Art, Norman Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and recommends the tools to navigate it. Addressing the reader in a conversational tone, …	OL1822217W
Marilyn, a biography	Norman Mailer	Profiles the Hollywood star's tragic life and explores her complexity as a woman and actress.	OL1822221W
The presidential papers	Norman Mailer	Norman Mailer’s Presidential Papers is a collection of much of his occasional writing of years 1960-1963. There are the epic essays on the 1960 Democratic convention and the first Patterson-Liston fi…	OL1822222W
The Deer Park	Norman Mailer	Amid the cactus wilds some two hudred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed …	OL1822237W
JFK	Norman Mailer	With his Hollywood good looks, boundless enthusiasm, and mesmeric media presence, John F. Kennedy was destined to capture the imaginations of over 70 million Americans who watched the nation s first …	OL19711808W
Classic Stories of World War II	Nancy Wake,Richard Hillary,Evelyn Waugh,Guy Gibson,Kurt Vonnegut,Norman Mailer,John Steinbeck,Joseph Heller,Nicholas Monsarrat,John Richard Hersey,J. G. Ballard,Raymond Paull,Irwin Shaw,James A. Michener,James Jones,Ronald Seth	A perfect morning (from The Young Lions) / Irwin Shaw -- Lunghua camp (from Empire of the Sun) / J. G. Ballard -- The big day (from From Here to Eternity) / James Jones -- The landing on Kuralei (…	OL20185155W
Marilyn	Norman Mailer	This biography by Norman Mailer is a full attempt to understand a beautiful, complex and tragic woman, furnishing insights into her contradictions and revealing the many different facets of her perso…	OL24284696W
Un château en forêt	Norman Mailer	Dieter, le narrateur, est un SS qui possède des informations secrètes sur les origines d'Adolf Hitler. Il retrace son enfance et décrit sa famille de manière à montrer comment le dictateur a développ…	OL24305204W
Les vrais durs ne dansent pas	Norman Mailer	Bâti sur une trame de roman noir, ce récit heurté et cruel témoigne bien de la manière de cet écrivain égocentrique et superbe. L'intérêt de ce livre vaut plus par la peinture des caractères que par …	OL24437133W
Heroic War Stories	Alistair MacLean,Robert Graves,Richard Hillary,Erich Maria Remarque,H. G. Wells,Cecil Woodham Smith,Airey Neave,David Niven,Arthur Conan Doyle,Larry Forrester,Guy Gibson,Joseph Conrad,Ambrose Bierce,H. E. Bates,Norman Mailer,William Makepeace Thackeray,Stephen Crane,David Niven,Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy,Joseph Heller,Nicholas Monsarrat,Richard Alexander Hough,P. C. Wren,Frederic Manning	Fair stood the wind for France / H.E. Bates -- How Brigadier Gerard won his medal / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Invaders (from The Last enemy) / Richard Hillary - The War of the worlds / H.G. We…	OL9643577W