The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
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The Naked and the Dead

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: John Buffalo Mailer

Unabridged: 20 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/02/2016

Synopsis

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 become part of 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 an army platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.

About Norman Mailer

Born in Long Branch, NJ, in 1923, and raised in Brooklyn, Norman Mailer was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the 20th century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. The Castle in the Forest, his last novel, was his eleventh New York Times bestseller. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, The Armies of the Night, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for The Executioner’s Song and is the only person to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Mr. Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on October 20, 2023

The Naked and the Dead is Norman Mailer’s best novel and it is the best American book about war. The General had once said to him, ‘I like chaos, it's like the reagents foaming in the beaker before the precipitation of the crystals. It's a kind of savory to me.’ To generals war is a theatre and a bat......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 30, 2022

Us readers have no homes, like unnoticed birds we perch anywhere, like the most disturbed stalkers we go through anybody’s underwear drawer, like vicious tax-gatherers we audit everyone, the writers especially, their creatures the characters very particularly, and hanging between all three of us, th......more

Goodreads review by piperitapitta on May 24, 2018

Brothers in Arms. Beh, è passato un bel po' di tempo da allora, da quando ho finito di leggerlo. Ma se ancora adesso mi ricordo di loro, se ogni tanto, quando guardo un film in cui si parla anche di guerra, di quella guerra, mi ritrovo a pensare alla storia di Hearn, di Red, di Wilson, di Roth, di Bro......more

Goodreads review by Nood-Lesse on December 27, 2018

Big Book Una squadra di ricognitori su un’isola del pacifico in tempo di guerra. Un grafomane qualunque ne avrebbe scritto in prima persona, dal proprio punto di vista, Mailer scrive in terza e si avvale dei punti di vista di ciascun membro della squadra. Tu che leggi ti chiedi chi fra essi sia Norma......more

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