Harlot's Ghost

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Praise for Norman Mailer and HARLOT'S GHOST 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 beeome richer in wisdom with eaeh new book There can no longer be any doubt that he possesses the largest mind and imagination at work in American literature today." John W. Aldridge --Chicago Tribüné 'We are not in the fairyland of James Bond...but a real tough world ennobled by Mailer's literary skill He was the right man to exalt the history of the GIA into something better than history." Anthony Burgess The Washington Post Book World interweave[s] the real and the fictional so skillfully that what we read acquires a double authority: the authority of eonvincing fiction as well as fact. It treats the GIA as one gigantic living organism and shows us not only how it breathes, moves, hunts, feeds, but alsó... Tovább

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Praise for Norman Mailer and HARLOT'S GHOST 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 beeome richer in wisdom with eaeh new book There can no longer be any doubt that he possesses the largest mind and imagination at work in American literature today." John W. Aldridge --Chicago Tribüné 'We are not in the fairyland of James Bond...but a real tough world ennobled by Mailer's literary skill He was the right man to exalt the history of the GIA into something better than history." Anthony Burgess The Washington Post Book World interweave[s] the real and the fictional so skillfully that what we read acquires a double authority: the authority of eonvincing fiction as well as fact. It treats the GIA as one gigantic living organism and shows us not only how it breathes, moves, hunts, feeds, but alsó how it dreams...Immense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant." Salman Rushdie -----The Independent on Sunday "Elegantly written and filled with almost eleetric tension... When I returned from the world of Harlot's Ghost to the present I wished to be enveloped again by Mailer's imagination.' Róbert Wilson ------USA Today A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club Vissza