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Title: The Armies of the Night: History As a Novel/the Novel As History by Norman Mailer ISBN: 0-452-27279-3 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Armies of the Night
Comment: Winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for General-Non Fiction, Norman Mailer demonstrates his considerable skills of observation & insight: As Novelist, Historian, and Journalist in one book!
Necessary reading for understanding the United States of the 1960's, and perhaps the American psyche today, twenty something years later. Actually two books; History as a Novel, where he writes about himself intimately in the third-person. The second, The Novel as History, Mailer steps back and gives a more detached view of the 1967 march in Washington and its surrounding events.
Rating: 5
Summary: An account that's better than history, grander than fiction!
Comment: Mailer's 1968 account of the march on the Pentagon is something of a great and sweeping read where all of Mailer's skittish brillance falls into place. With nearly every facet of the counter culture gathering in Washington DC to give voice the commanding idea that the Viet Nam War was a folly that is at heart evil --antiwar protestors, Yippies, Quakers, poets, beats, rock stars, various drugged out crazies, nuns and ministers--Mailer was the superb witness to the events as they unfolded.
The book is cranky, spirited, rolling with the metahors and acid insights that the mature Mailer manages; he is a subtle and rich noticer of small things, bits of business, gestures, facial expressions. Indeed, "Armies of the Night" is as much a comedy of manners as it is literary journalism. The shrewd and blunt estimations of Robert Lowell and Dwight MacDonald are wonders of the whole-honed phrase.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good for Baby Boomers only
Comment: For those of us born after the events of October 21, 1967, the book is a disappointment. Mailer fails to offer better explanations of important characters that were icons of the late '60s. Since I was born after that, I have no inherent knowledge of the hippie idols, etc. In this 'history as novel', Mailer fails miserably at what most great novelist excel: character development.
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Title: The Naked and the Dead : 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer ISBN: 0312265050 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 05 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer ISBN: 0375700811 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner ISBN: 0679732187 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Dispatches by Michael Herr ISBN: 0679735259 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 06 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe ISBN: 0553380648 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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