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  • The Executioner's Song

    by Norman Mailer ...
    In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States.The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do so, he fought a system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death.Norman Mailer ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Naked and the Dead

    by Norman Mailer ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forever the popular perception of warfare.Focusing on the experiences of a fourteen-man platoon ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Naked and the Dead

    50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

    by Norman Mailer ...
    "The best novel to come out of the....war. Perhaps the best book to come out of any war." - The San Francisco Chronicle"The most important American novel since Moby Dick." - NewsweekHailed 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 enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Modest Gifts

    Poems and Drawings

    by Norman Mailer ...
    An unexpected collection from Norman Mailer—a book of his selected poems and more than one hundred of his drawings, most of them never before published. Modest Gifts is full of what the author calls “casual pleasures”—witty, naughty, and surprisingly tender verse and art. Lust, seduction, betrayal, jealousy, and even the banality of cocktail party chatter are depicted with humor, affection, and, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • On God

    An Uncommon Conversation

    by Norman Mailer ...
    “I see God,” wrote Norman Mailer, “as a Creator, as the greatest artist. I see human beings as His most developed artworks.” In these moving, amusing, and probing dialogues conducted in the years before his death, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, rejecting both organized religion and atheism. He avows that sensual pleasures were bestowed on us by God; he finds fault with the Ten ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tough Guys Don't Dance

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    “Spectacular . . . [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.”—PeopleNorman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends genre. When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Why Are We in Vietnam?

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    “It is impossible to walk away from this novel without being sharply reminded of the fact that Norman Mailer is a writer of extraordinary ability.”—Chicago TribuneFeaturing a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinleyPublished nearly twenty years after Norman Mailer’s fiction debut, The Naked and the Dead, this acclaimed novel further solidified the author’s stature as one of the most ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Deer Park

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D’Or. It is a place for starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic, Desert D’Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want—and how far they are willing to go to get ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Ancient Evenings

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. Mailer’s reincarnated protagonist is carried through the exquisite gardens of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Advertisements for Myself

    by Norman Mailer ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of Mailer's key beliefs contains pieces on his war experiences in the Philippines (the basis for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Miami and the Siege of Chicago

    An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

    by Norman Mailer ...
    In this landmark work of journalism, Norman Mailer reports on the presidential conventions of 1968, the turbulent year from which today’s bitterly divided country arose. The Vietnam War was raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy had just been assassinated. In August, the Republican Party met in Miami and picked Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • An American Dream

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner’s Song. As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD