The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Norman Mailer
• Title: The Naked and the Dead
• Publisher: ‎ Owl Books; 50th Anniversary Edition (January 1, 1998)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 721 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0805060170
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0805060171
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.85 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.51 x 1.9 x 7.8 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (may show some minor discoloration on pages / page edges)
• Cover Condition: Good (shows minimal shelf wear)
• Edition: 50th Anniversary Edition

Synopsis:

The fiftieth-anniversary edition of an American classic, with a new introduction by the author.

Hailed 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. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.

Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.

Norman Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead at the age of twenty-five, after serving two years in the Philippines as a rifleman during World War II. He has written thirty-one books, including Armies of the Night (1968), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Executioner's Song (1979), which also won the Pulitzer, and more recently, Harlot's Ghost.

About the Author:

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor and political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948. His best-known work was widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, which was published in 1979, and for which he won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, his book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award.

Along with Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in fact-based journalism.

Mailer was also known for his essays, the most renowned of which was "The White Negro." He was a cultural commentator and critic, expressing his views through his novels, journalism, essays and frequent media appearances.

In 1955, Mailer and four others founded The Village Voice, an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village.