Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
In what is arguably his greatest book, written in 1979, America’s most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America’s prisons who—after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood—insisted on dying for his crime. To do so, he had to fight a system that seemed intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.
Norman Mailer tells Gilmore’s story—and those of the men and women caught up in his procession toward the firing squad—with implacable authority, steely…
Norman Mailer
“The most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced….Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book….There can no longer be any doubt that he possesses the largest mind and imagination at work in American literature today.”—Chicago Tribune
Narrated by Harry Hubbard, a second-generation CIA man, Harlot’s Ghost looks into the depths of the American soul and the soul of Hugh…
