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

Desert D''Or is the fashionable Californian resort where Hollywood''s elite converge when they need a break. It is an incestuous hothouse of a town - a haven for manipulators, film stars, lovers, pimps, producers, whores, gamblers, scriptwriters and cheats. Into this nightmare world of depravity arrives Sergius O''Shaughnessy, recently discharged from the Air Force, traumatised by his ar experiences and trying to write the Great American Novel. But O''Shaughnessy''s burning ambition begins to lose its edge; lured by greed and rules by weakness, he soon becomes disturbingly familiar with the dnagerous life of slick compromises and sexual follies...The Deer Park is a powerful and vigorous satire on Hollywood''s excesses and corruption. Combining a savage imagination with a heightened documentary realism, Mailer paints an uncompromising and terrifying portriat of a decadent society lost in moral confusion and despair.

No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Mohammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in The Castle in the Forest, his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, Mailer offers what may be his consummate literary endeavor: He has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler''s father and mother, his sisters and brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and adolescence. A tapestry of unforgettable characters, The Castle in the Forest delivers its playful twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all. At its core is a hypothesis that propels this novel and makes it a work of stunning originality. Now, on the eve of his eighty-fourth birthday, Norman Mailer may well be saying more than he ever has before.

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 freedomindeed responsibilityto choose our own paths. Mailer trusts that our individual behavioralways a complex mix of good and evilwill 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 Commandmentsbecause adultery, he avers, may be a lesser evil than others suffered in a bad marriageand he holds that technology was the Devils 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 Executioners Song and beyond, Mailers 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.

Ancient Evenings, a dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel, recreates the long-lost civilisation of Ancient Egypt. Mailer breathes life into the figures of that era; the eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. His hero, three times reincarnated during the novel, moves in the bright sunlight of white temples, in the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow of the Nile and in the terrifying clash of battle. An outstanding work of creative imagination, Ancient Evenings displays Mailer''s obsession with magic, violence and eroticism and lives on in the mind long after the last page has been turned.

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

En la década de 1950, Norman Mailer publicó Los desnudos y los muertos y se hizo famoso. Luego de su ajuste de cuentas con la Segunda Guerra, escribió ficciones sobre la CIA y el nazismo, biografías de Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso y Lee Harvey Oswald, y El parque de los ciervos, que prefiguro la seguidilla de filmes acerca de la corrupcion en la industria del cine estadounidense. Celebre tambien por sus posiciones publicas sobre la democracia, las drogas, la sexualidad, el feminismo y el dinero, nunca perdio de vista su interes principal: la literatura.Un arte espectral reune, bajo la forma de consejos a jovenes escritores, reflexiones tecnicas "sobre los bestsellers, las narraciones en primera y en tercera persona, la utilizacion de sujetos reales en la ficcion, el poder del subconsciente, el nuevo periodismo", lecciones de autopromocion y lecturas recomendadas, que encabezan Tolstoi, Twain y Dos Passos. Y tambien opiniones provocativas sobre sus colegas: Hemingway, Henry Miller, Updike, Philip Roth, Vonnegut, Garcia Marquez, Bellow, Styron, Beckett, Borges, Cheever, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Graham Greene y Mary McCarthy, entre muchos otros.Memoria elocuente, ademas, de las experiencias personales y politicas de un hombre que vivio impetuosamente y convirtio al escritor en un actor imprescindible de la vida contemporanea, esta coleccion de ensayos acerca al gran publico el pensamiento y el estilo de un creador del siglo XX.

"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talents." —The New Yorker"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind." —Life"A work of fierce concentration. . . . Perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic [with] . . . a pattern of remarkable imaginative coherence and intensity." —Harper's

En los setenta nace el arte callejero en Nueva York; el escritor Norman Mailer se asocia con el fotógrafo Jon Naar y el resultado es este poderoso documento, La fe del grafiti. Mailer proyecta su mirada provocativa sobre el significado de esta expresión de la cultura contemporánea; Naar selecciona, captura, da sentido a la obra de los «escritores de grafiti». Juntos levantan esta acta de registro para la historia de un arte que no ha de durar. Una reflexión, en palabras e imágenes, sobre el significado de la identidad, la propiedad y el arte urbano.

Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of Mailer's key beliefs contains pieces on his war experiences in the Philippines (the basis for his famous first novel The Naked and the Dead), tributes to fellow novelists William Styron, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal and magnificent polemics against pornography, advertising, drugs and politics. Also included is his notorious exposition of the phenomenon of the 'White Negro', the Beat Generation's existentialist hero whose life, like Mailer's, is 'an unchartered journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self'

Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupts. Antiwar protesters fill the streets and the police run amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike, all broadcast on live television, and captured in these pages by one of America's fiercest intellects.