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 (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.See notes.

About Norman Mailer

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.


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