The Naked and the Dead (50th Anniversary Edition)

by Norman Mailer

Overview

Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since become part of the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.

Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows an army platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312265052
Publisher:	Picador
Publication date:	08/05/2000
Edition description:	Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
Pages:	736
Sales rank:	70,872
Product dimensions:	5.45(w) x 8.15(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is widely regarded as one of the finest American novels of the twentieth century. Among Norman Mailer's other achievements are Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Armies of the Night, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1968, and The Executioner's Song, which won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize.

Hometown:

Provincetown, Massachusetts, and New York, New York

Date of Birth:

January 31, 1923

Date of Death:

November 10, 2007

Place of Birth:

Long Branch, New Jersey

Education:

B.S., Harvard University, 1943; Sorbonne, Paris, 1947-48

Editorial Reviews

The best novel to come out of the . . . war, perhaps the best book to come out of any war.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Best novel yet about World War II.” —Time

“Brutal, agonizing, astonishingly thoughtful.” —Newsweek

“Nightmarish masterpiece of realism.” —Cleveland News

“Vibrant with life, abundant with real people, full of memorable scenes. To call it merely a great book about the war would be to minimize its total achievement.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

“The most important American novel since Moby-Dick.” —Providence Journal

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