
The Naked and the Dead
Author: Norman Mailer
Narrator: John Buffalo Mailer
Unabridged: 20 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 08/02/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Military Fiction

Author: Norman Mailer
Narrator: John Buffalo Mailer
Unabridged: 20 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 08/02/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Military Fiction
Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; and The Gospel According to the Son. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with his wife, the novelist Norris Church Mailer.
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