The Naked and the Dead: Norman Mailer (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Mailer, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241340497 ISBN 13: 9780241340493

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2018

Synopsis

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 stationed on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific during World War II, and written in a journalistic style, it tells the moving story of the soldiers' struggle to retain a sense of dignity amidst the horror of warfare, and to find a source of meaning in their lives amisdst the sounds and fury of battle.

About this title

About the Author:

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Executioner's Song and Harlot's Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night, A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon) and The Fight. He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0241340497
• ISBN 13: 9780241340493
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688