Author
Norman Mailer
5 award wins, 1 nomination across 3 books.
Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
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The Executioner's Song
1056 pages
Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood. After being tried and convicted, he immediately insisted on being executed for his crime. To do so, he fought a system that seemed intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death. And that fight for the right to die is what made him famous.
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Why Are We in Vietnam?
208 pages
Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.
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