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Read [Norman Mailer Book] * The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition If you are going to read a novel about WWII, read this one. Paddler I worked with a man who was an infantry officer in the South Pacific during WWII. Sometimes when we were together on business we would swap stories about our service days. My service was as a Navy Officer during the Cold War and completely safe compared to his. Mine tended to be funny. His were sometimes hair-raising. His descriptions of his experiences of combat on Pacific islands were similar to Mailer's. This is, of course, f
| Title | : | The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312265050 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 736 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-23 |
| Language | : | English |
If you are going to read a novel about WWII, read this one. Paddler I worked with a man who was an infantry officer in the South Pacific during WWII. Sometimes when we were together on business we would swap stories about our service days. My service was as a Navy Officer during the Cold War and completely safe compared to his. Mine tended to be funny. His were sometimes hair-raising. His descriptions of his experiences of combat on Pacific islands were similar to Mailer's. This is, of course, fact-based fiction. A story well-told by a good story-teller.. Tremendous first novel Reading Norman Mailer's first published novel is a lesson on how language and word usage has deteriorated in the last half century. Maybe I read too much alternative fiction (collectively the worst genre ever for skilled, good writing) or multiple volume sci-fi (second worst). Think kindergartener vs college student. My first Mailer. Fantastically intelligent writing. And a first novel at a relatively young age.. WWII is Backdrop for Psychological Ruminations Near the end of this book Sgt. Brown says that part of war is "finding out things about yourself that, by God, it don't pay to know."The key to this book is viewing it as an examination of man's warring impulses. The General, Lt. Hearn and each man in the platoon fight an internal war, between what he believes he is and what he really is.The plot concerns a campaign to control the South Pacific island of Anopopei, but the plot, like Mount Anaka, is the tip of the psychological iceberg.The island itself can be seen as the mind of one man, and the soldiers as the ideas, and ideals, that inha
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Nakedand 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 doe 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.
If your current copy is falling apart, now is the time to replace it.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. . From Library Journal This 50th-anniversary edition of Mailer's World War II epic contains a new introduction by the author
Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is widely regarded as one of the finest American novels of the twentieth century. Among Norman Mailer's other achievements are Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Armies of the Night, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1968,
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