The Time of Our Time (Modern Library Paperbacks)

Mailer, Norman

ISBN 10: 0375754911 / ISBN 13: 9780375754913

Editore: Modern Library, U.S.A., 1999

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Near Fine. Red and white paperback wraps. Inscribed on half-title page to fellow author and socialite Leila Hadley Luce.

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• Titolo: The Time of Our Time (Modern Library Paperbacks)
• Editore: Modern Library, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375754911
• ISBN 13: 9780375754913
• Rilegatura: Paper Back
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Firmato: Signed by Author(s)
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Leila Hadley Luce

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Riassunto

One of the twentieth century's greatest writers chronicles his career and his times through interrelated passages taken from his works

Informazioni sull?autore

Norman Mailer 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.

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.

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.


From the Hardcover edition.