Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed Set

Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed Set (The Library of America, 305-306)

Fifty years after the turmoil of 1968, modern America's most turbulent decade comes to life though the collected writings of its greatest literary provocateur

No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set, are two novels, two book-length masterpieces of new journalism, and thirty-three essays.Â

Four Books of the 1960sÂ presentsÂ An American Dream, Mailer's hallucinatory voyage through the dark night of an America awash in money, sex, and violence;Â Why Are We in Vietnam?, in which a motor-mouthed 18-year-old Texan on the eve of military service recounts with manic and obscene exuberance a grizzly bear hunt in Alaska that exposes the macho roots of the war; and the acclaimed "non-fiction novel"Â The Armies of the Night(winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award) and its follow-upÂ Miami and the Siege of Chicago, on-the-scene/in-the-scene accounts of an antiwar march on the Pentagon and the party conventions of 1968. In these revolutionary books Mailer cast himself as a player in the drama he reports, bringing a sharp and merciless eye on the decade's political upheavals.

InÂ Collected Essays of the 1960sÂ acclaimed Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon gathers for the first time all the essential essays from the classic collectionsÂ The Presidential PapersÂ (1963),Â Cannibals and ChristiansÂ (1966), andÂ Existential ErrandsÂ (1972), each a fascinating window on one of the most extraordinary and tumultuous decades in the nation's history. Whether writing about Jackie Kennedy or Sonny Liston, the realist tradition in America or the internal culture wars of the Republican Party, the death of Ernest Hemingway or the battle against censorship, Mailer was always ready to intervene in what he called "the years of the plague."

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ€™s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ€™s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2018-03-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598535570

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2018-03-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598535570

Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed Set (The Library of America, 305-306)

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