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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

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Marilyn: A Biography

    by Norman Mailer ...
    An extraordinary biography of the legendary screen star Marilyn Monroe (originally published in 1973) by Norman Mailer, one of America's most important writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Mailer, the winner of two Pullitzer Prizes, was the first writer to explore the relationship between Monroe and Bobby Kennedy. When first published, this book was the subject of Time and Life ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harlot's Ghost

    A Novel

    by 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 ... 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Oswald's Tale

    An American Mystery

    by Norman Mailer ...
    In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains—and enigmas—in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald—his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an “America [waiting] for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat.” Based on KGB and FBI transcripts, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Gospel According to the Son

    A Novel

    by Norman Mailer ...
    Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history. Here is Jesus Christ’s story in his own words: the discovery of his divinity and the painful, powerful journey to accepting and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Men of Letters: The Playboy Interview

    50 Years of the Playboy Interview

    by Playboy, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Miller, Jean-Paul Sartre, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, Tennessee Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, Lee Child ...
    The writers who crafted the innovative ideas, characters and worlds that changed our perception of reality and shaped our future are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the masters of the stage like Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams to the controversial revolutionaries of the word Vladimir Nabokov and Allen Ginsberg to the ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • The Spooky Art

    Thoughts on Writing

    by Norman Mailer ...
    “Writing is spooky,” according to Norman Mailer. “There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words.” In The Spooky Art, Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and recommends the tools to navigate it. Addressing the reader in a conversational tone, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Fight

    by Norman Mailer ...
    In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing.” The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity. Whether he is analyzing the fighters’ moves, ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • Selected Letters of Norman Mailer

    by Norman Mailer ...
    A genuine literary event—an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all timeOver the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific—or more exposed—than in his letters. All told, Mailer crafted more than 45,000 pieces of correspondence ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD