Norman Mailer

Advertisements for Myself is an omnibus collection of short works and fragments by Norman Mailer, linked with commentaries supplied by the author himself. The collection, which was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1959, features stories from Mailer's days as a student at Harvard College as well as later works, …

Barbary Shore is Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. It concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, he is an amnesiac, and much of his past …

The Executioner's Song is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events related to the execution of Gary Gilmore for murder by the state of Utah. It was a finalist for the 1980 National Book Award. The title of the book may be a play on "The Lord High Executioner's Song" from Gilbert and …

De nakna och de döda är en roman från 1948 av Norman Mailer. Den utgavs i svensk översättning 1950, och filmatiserades 1958. Romanen handlar om soldater i andra världskrigets strider i Stilla havet och utspelar sig på den helt fiktiva ön Anopopei. Mailers egna upplevelser under andra världskriget ligger som grund till …