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El 20 de julio de 1969 la ciencia ficción se hizo realidad. Reviva el trascendental alunizaje del Apolo 11 en este innovador libro. Extractos de la novela de Norman Mailer Of a Fire on the Moon se un

To Foreman, Ali now said, 'You have heard of me since you were young. You've been following me since you were a little boy. Now, you must meet me, your master!' '

Si nuestro siglo ha aportado una palabra a la potencia de la lengua, esa es ego». En 1967 el campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados, Muhammad Ali, se negó a tomar parte en la guerra de Vietnam, lo que le costó la retirada del título y, paradójicamente, el ingreso en la categoría de los grandes mitos del siglo XX, símbolo de lucha más allá de sus hazañas deportivas. Cuando en 1971 regresó al ring para recuperar su título frente a Joe Frazier, en el llamado Combate del Siglo, muchos creían que era un boxeador acabado y que el orgullo lo cegaba... Solo uno de los grandes cronistas de su tiempo, Norman Mailer, podía ofrecer un texto que va más allá de la narración deportiva y la semblanza biográfica para adentrarse en la reflexión sobre el símbolo social, el ascenso y caída del mito, el hombre detrás de la leyenda.

An unexpected collection from Norman Mailera book of his selected poems and more than one hundred of his drawings, most of them never before published. Modest Gifts is full of what the author calls casual pleasures witty, naughty, and surprisingly tender verse and art. Lust, seduction, betrayal, jealousy, and even the banality of cocktail party chatter are depicted with humor, affection, and, above all, honesty. Here is an aspect of Norman Mailer unknown to many: lighthearted, prankish, whimsical, and often gentle, playfully sketching the intimate urban world that surrounds us. Modest, funny, and true, each poem and drawing shows a new side of one of the greatest writers of our time.

Fifitieth Anniversary Edition With a new introduction by Norman Mailer * 'The best war novel to come out of the United States.' The Times * Norman Mailer's first novel. The book that catapulted him to instant fame. * A modern classic, on every American Literature student's reading list. * 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.

A metaphysical thriller set in the world of the CIA between Berlin in the 1950s and the assassination of JFK in 1963. In it, Norman Mailer created a tough, dangerous world that takes on its own unique set of spiritual values, challenging many of the preconceptions of 20th-century American history.

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 faith and the nature of good and evil. Now Mailer offers his concept of the nature of God. His conversations with his friend and literary executor, Michael Lennon, show this writer at his most direct, provocative, and challenging. "I think," writes Mailer, "that piety is oppressive. It takes all the air out of thought." In moving, amusing, probing, and uncommon dialogues conducted over three years but whose topics he has considered for decades, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, one that rejects both organized religion and atheism. He presents instead a view of our world as one created by an artistic God who often succeeds but can also fail in the face of determined opposition by contrary powers in the universe, with whom war is waged for the souls of humans. In turn, we have been given freedom-indeed responsibility-to choose our own paths. Mailer trusts that our individual behavior-always a complex mix of good and evil-will be rewarded or punished with a reincarnation that fits the sum of our lives. Mailer weighs the possibilities of "intelligent design" at the same time avowing that sensual pleasures were bestowed on us by God; he finds fault with the Ten Commandments-because adultery, he avers, may be a lesser evil than others suffered in a bad marriage-and he holds that technology was the Devil's most brilliant creation. In short, Mailer is original and unpredictablein this inspiring verbal journey, a unique vision of the world in which "God needs us as much as we need God." From The Naked and the Dead to The Executioner's Song and beyond, Mailer's major works have engaged such themes as war, politics, culture, and sex. Now, in this small yet important book, Mailer, in a modest, well-spoken style, gives us fresh ways to think about the largest subject of them all.

A bold and darkly funny novel about the family and early life of Adolf Hitler.

Estos Fragmentos reúnen lo mejor de la producción periodística y crítica de este eterno enfant terrible de las letras norteamericanas que es Norman Mailer

When Why are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was cestatic. Narrated by Ranald (D.J) Jethroe, Texas most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.

En 1974, au championnat mondial de boxe poids lourds à Kinshasa, au Zaïre, Mohammed Ali affronte George Foreman, le tenant du titre. Le combat, organisé par Don King et récupéré à des fins politiques par le président Mobutu, a lieu dans une ambiance survoltée au milieu de 68 000 spectateurs. Les armes de Foreman sont le silence, la sérénité et la ruse. Jamais encore il n'a été battu. Ses mains sont le seul instrument qu'il possède : « Il les tenait dans sa poche comme un chasseur laisse son fusil dans un étui de velours. » Ali a pour lui l'intimidation, la rapidité, une intelligence tactique hors du commun et un charisme exceptionnel : « Je suis le maître de la danse, un grand artiste. » Leur rencontre est celle de deux volontés de fer, deux ego monumentaux. Ce récit dense et magnétique couvre les semaines de préparation des deux champions assiégés par les médias du monde entier, jusqu'au combat lui-même.

Now Norman Mailer has written a novel about Jesus' life. Is God speaking to me? Jesus asks. Or am I hearing voices? If the voices are from God, why has He chosen me as His son? And if they are not from God, then who gave me the power to perform these miracles? It soon becomes evident that we are being told the story of a skilled and most devout carpenter who is living with prodigious questions. The result, paradoxically, is an intimately readable account of a man thrust forward by the visions he receives, the sermons he offers, and the miracles he enacts until he comes to the apocalyptic end of his powers. The Gospel According to the Son, while adhering closely to the New Testament, also succeeds in vividly re-creating the world of Galilee and Jerusalem two thousand years ago. In a time of uneasy stability, the Holy Land is governed by a complacent but fearful establishment who rule over a despairing underclass - it is a time of great change, open to comparison with our own. Mailer's signal accomplishment is to create for us a man wholly unlike others who is nonetheless filled with passion and doubt, strength and weakness; a protagonist divine and human, a son of God who shares our condition.