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Norman Mailer
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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.
©1951 Norman Mailer (P)2016 Brilliance Audio. All rights reserved.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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George MacDonald Fraser beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the wars final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service
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- De Andrew M. Woodward en 06-12-10
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The Dark of The Sun
- De: Wilbur Smith
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
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Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting and to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerrillas and hostile tribes that roam the land. But there is another, even deadlier enemy - one of his own men....
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Enjoyable adventure
- De Lee Brogden en 03-12-25
De: Wilbur Smith
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From Here to Eternity
- De: James Jones
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 36 h y 50 m
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Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood...and, possibly, their death.
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Genius on Every Level
- De aaron en 06-13-13
De: James Jones
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Catch-22
- De: Joseph Heller
- Narrado por: Jay O. Sanders
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
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Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he's assigned, he'll be in violation of Catch-22.
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- De Kenneth S. Clark en 08-31-18
De: Joseph Heller
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Once a Warrior King
- Memories of an Officer in Vietnam
- De: David Donovan
- Narrado por: Don Sobczak
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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He was a young American soldier - and the most powerful man in a remote rural District of Vietnam.
In the spring of 1969, First Lieutenant David Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam to work as military advisor with village chiefs and local militia to win the war.
But as he was the highest-ranking person in the entire district, his life there was far more complex than anyone could have imagined.
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- De Trucker john en 02-27-14
De: David Donovan
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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
- An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq
- De: John Crawford
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition; it had seemed a small sacrifice to give up one weekend a month and two weeks a year in exchange for a free education. But one semester short of graduating, and newly married, he was called to active duty, to serve in Kuwait, then on the front lines of the invasion of Iraq, and ultimately in Baghdad. While serving in Iraq, Crawford began writing short nonfiction stories, his account of what he and his fellow soldiers experienced.
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An honest, real account of the Iraq War
- De Michael J. Mountain en 09-07-05
De: John Crawford
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Sometimes a Great Notion
- De: Ken Kesey
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 30 h y 32 m
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A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion, was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon’s Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel.
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Sometimes a Great Novel Pops up out of Nowhere
- De Mr. Eyuz en 06-07-19
De: Ken Kesey
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Covenant with Death
- De: John Harris
- Narrado por: Mike Rogers
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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They joined for their country. They fought for each other. When war breaks out in 1914, Mark Fenner and his Sheffield friends immediately flock to Kitchener's call. Amid waving flags and boozy celebration, the three men - Fen, his best friend Locky and self-assured Frank, rival for the woman Fen loves - enlist as volunteers to take on the Germans and win glory.
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A superb Great War historical novel
- De Jean en 09-28-14
De: John Harris
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The Orenda
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Boyden
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Graham Rowat, Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his native guides abandon him to flee their Iroquois pursuers. A Huron warrior and elder named Bird soon takes him prisoner, along with a young Iroquois girl, Snow Falls, whose family he has just killed, and holds them captive in his massive village. Champlain's Iron People have only recently begun trading with the Huron, who mistrust them as well as this Crow who has now trespassed onto their land; and her people, of course, have become the Huron's greatest enemy.
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Thoughtful and interesting, if not always gripping
- De David en 06-15-14
De: Joseph Boyden
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Dispatches
- De: Michael Herr
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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From its terrifying opening to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.
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- De Mark Thoreson en 01-18-22
De: Michael Herr
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Walking Point
- From the Ashes of the Vietnam War
- De: Perry A. Ulander
- Narrado por: Alan Ross
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing experiences that shattered his core beliefs, Ulander also captures the camaraderie and humor of his platoon, the hostility between "lifers" and draftees, the physical hardships of reconnaissance missions, and the unrelenting apprehension underlying everyday life.
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Bad transitions
- De Rosemary N Bourgeois en 12-18-16
De: Perry A. Ulander
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From Here to Eternity
- De: James Jones
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 36 h y 50 m
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Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood...and, possibly, their death.
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Genius on Every Level
- De aaron en 06-13-13
De: James Jones
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The Armies of the Night
- History as a Novel, the Novel as History
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left - hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals - came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, participated, suffered, and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the 1960s.
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The last tool left to history
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-19
De: Norman Mailer
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Harlot's Ghost
- A Novel
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 48 h y 40 m
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With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society - and his own past - takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the "momentous catastrophe" of the Kennedy assassination. All the while, Hubbard is haunted by women who were loved by both his godfather and President Kennedy.
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Timely & Terrific
- De Gingoldj en 05-26-17
De: Norman Mailer
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The Executioner's Song
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Maxwell Hamilton
- Duración: 42 h y 37 m
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Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in audio. Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood. After being tried and convicted, he immediately insisted on being executed for his crime. To do so, he fought a system that seemed intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.
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Pulitzer-winner spoiled by numskulled narration
- De W Perry Hall en 05-21-18
De: Norman Mailer
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Oswald's Tale
- An American Mystery
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 29 h y 17 m
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In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains - and enigmas - in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald - his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an "America [waiting] for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat."
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Outstanding
- De night owl en 04-21-17
De: Norman Mailer
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An American Dream
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, author Norman Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the listener by the throat and refuses to let go.
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Mailers Immodest masterpiece
- De W C Woods en 07-02-20
De: Norman Mailer
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From Here to Eternity
- De: James Jones
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 36 h y 50 m
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Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood...and, possibly, their death.
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Genius on Every Level
- De aaron en 06-13-13
De: James Jones
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The Armies of the Night
- History as a Novel, the Novel as History
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left - hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals - came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, participated, suffered, and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the 1960s.
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The last tool left to history
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-19
De: Norman Mailer
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Harlot's Ghost
- A Novel
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 48 h y 40 m
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With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society - and his own past - takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the "momentous catastrophe" of the Kennedy assassination. All the while, Hubbard is haunted by women who were loved by both his godfather and President Kennedy.
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Timely & Terrific
- De Gingoldj en 05-26-17
De: Norman Mailer
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The Executioner's Song
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Maxwell Hamilton
- Duración: 42 h y 37 m
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Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in audio. Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood. After being tried and convicted, he immediately insisted on being executed for his crime. To do so, he fought a system that seemed intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.
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Pulitzer-winner spoiled by numskulled narration
- De W Perry Hall en 05-21-18
De: Norman Mailer
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Oswald's Tale
- An American Mystery
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 29 h y 17 m
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In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains - and enigmas - in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald - his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an "America [waiting] for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat."
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Outstanding
- De night owl en 04-21-17
De: Norman Mailer
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An American Dream
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, author Norman Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the listener by the throat and refuses to let go.
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Mailers Immodest masterpiece
- De W C Woods en 07-02-20
De: Norman Mailer
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The Caine Mutiny
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 26 h y 31 m
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Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater. It was immediately embraced upon its original publication as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of the Second World War. In the intervening half century, this gripping story has become a perennial favorite, selling millions throughout the world, and claiming the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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Even Better than the Movie
- De James en 06-20-12
De: Herman Wouk
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The Fight
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible "professor of boxing." The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity.
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- De tinyclanger en 04-13-20
De: Norman Mailer
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Of a Fire on the Moon
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 17 h y 32 m
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For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer - the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction - wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of America's reach for greatness in the midst of the Cold War, Of a Fire on the Moon compiles the reportage Mailer published between 1969 and 1970 in Life magazine
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wild view tying themes of gopd and evil
- De Jim Wilder en 06-24-19
De: Norman Mailer
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Ancient Evenings
- A Novel
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 29 h y 58 m
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Norman Mailer's dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. Mailer's reincarnated protagonist is carried through the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow of the Nile, and into the terrifying clash of battle.
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Complete Drek
- De D.R. en 07-25-18
De: Norman Mailer
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The Deer Park
- A Novel
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: John Buffalo Mailer
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic of 1950s Hollywood, Desert D'Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want - and how far they are willing to go to get it.
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Buffaloed
- De Urquhart22 en 06-06-19
De: Norman Mailer
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The Castle in the Forest
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf from birth through adolescence and offers revealing portraits of Hitler's parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the 20th century, Mailer's novel delivers myriad twists and surprises along with characteristically astonishing insights into the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all.
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Nope
- De Browncoat en 02-14-23
De: Norman Mailer
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Tough Guys Don't Dance
- A Novel
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper arm, and a severed female head in his marijuana stash, he has almost no memory of the night before. As he reconstructs the missing hours, Madden runs afoul of retired prizefighters, sex addicts, mediums, former cons, a world-weary ex-girlfriend, and his own father, old now but still a Herculean figure.
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way too predictable
- De Stefan in KY en 02-21-19
De: Norman Mailer
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The 13th Valley
- De: John M. Del Vecchio
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 27 h y 24 m
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The 13th Valley follows the terrifying Vietnam combat experiences of James Chelini, a telephone-systems installer who finds himself an infantryman in territory controlled by the North Vietnamese army. Spiraling deeper and deeper into a world of conflict and darkness, this harrowing account of Chelini's plunge and immersion into jungle warfare traces his evolution from a semipacifist to an all-out combat-crazed soldier.
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Could Have Been Brilliant
- De KB2187 en 12-03-17
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Barbary Shore
- A Novel
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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Published at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer's audacious novel of socialism is at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest. Wounded during World War II, Mike Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. But when Lovett rents a room in Brooklyn, he finds that his housemates have secrets of their own: one betrays a husband no one ever sees; another may have been a Communist executioner.
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
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1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby Kennedy was killed after winning the California primary in June. In August, Republicans met in Miami, picking the little-loved Richard Nixon as their candidate.
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1968 Was A Crazy Political Year
- De Darwin8u en 01-17-20
De: Norman Mailer
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When the Lion Feeds
- The Courtneys, Book 1
- De: Wilbur Smith
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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It is the 1870s, and twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney are born into the wilds of Natal. They could not be more different, and fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening. And on the horizon is the promise of fortune, adventure, destiny and love.... When the Lion Feeds is the best-selling novel that launched Wilbur Smith's stellar career and the first in the riveting saga of the Courtney brothers.
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What did you do with John Lee?
- De SAM en 04-03-19
De: Wilbur Smith
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Tender Is the Night
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.
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- De jb en 10-12-15
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- Marcia Ridley-Shumate
- 01-23-21
The hell of war
Gave new meaning to war in all of its postures. Very detailed with excellent visualization. Well written.
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- Jim
- 06-15-19
Worthy
this really is one of the better WW2 books around. this really is one of the better WW2 books around
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- 04-11-17
Best audio book is hard so far.
The performance was totally immersive and entertaining. John must have made his father very proud wish this.
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- Daniel Diffin
- 06-24-24
Brilliant novel
I’ve read a lot of WWII history, but somehow never read much WWII fiction. This was Mailer’s first novel, and it’s hard to believe how polished it is, and how penetrating. It’s a hard look at war and the men who fight. No one comes out looking particularly good, though some characters are more sympathetic than others. There are vain, petty officers, and psychotic noncoms. There are more than a few war crimes. There’s a lot of compassion for the suffering of the soldiers.
The narrator is adequate, but not great. The writing is superb.
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- G. D. P.
- 07-10-22
Terrific Story of Men in the Midst of Conflict
Incredibly deep and well written story about a squad of soldiers on a Japanese-held island in WWII. Even more amazing to think it was written by a 24- or 25-year-old Mailer. The unvarnished dialogue must have been quite shocking when the book originally came out in 1948. That dialogue and the characters reminded me of stories my father told me about the people he was in the Army with in WWII. People from very different backgrounds thrown into a pressure cooker together. It's a classic for good reason.
I also wanted to mention the narrator, John Buffalo Mailer. I held off on buying this book because I'm not a fan of nepotism. But JBM did a terrific job, probably as good as anyone could have.
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- "cptcpt"
- 03-02-23
Glad I finally caught up on an important work.
I was impressed with the level of gritty realism to be found in a book written in 1947. It shies away from very few topics that would’ve been relevant to the life of a World War II soldier. kind of surprised I don’t recall seeing it on a list of banned books.
The performance is excellent, well paced with excellent characterizations, and very few errors.
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- G. Elliot
- 02-27-23
Detailed, like Tolstoy
The story is full of believable detail, and believable inner monologues. Reminds me of Leo Tolstoy’s mode of writing. Characters well drawn out. Likely the best thing Mailer wrote.
The person reading (who also happens to be named Mailer) did an excellent job with the various American dialects. Usually I prefer that not be included, since it’s distracting if not done perfectly.
In any case, I thoroughly enjoyed this version.
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- Mastiff Enthusiast
- 06-25-17
too much period racial slurs/ attitudes etc
I read this because it was on Obama's best books list, but I couldn't get past the n words, Jew bashing, and all the other period accurate but still disturbing plotlines. I think it was "real " like private Ryan was... I that people were just people, not heroes, but I think I enjoy reading about heroes more.
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- David P. Wingert
- 04-09-23
Best war narrative you can find
I am embarrassed it has taken me this long to read this novel. I’m not sure why the novel’s gritty realism has not captured many modern reader’s attention. It is well worth the effort.
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- raimundo
- 01-17-24
Mailer tour de force!
The writing left me jealous of Mailer’s talent. It is as if the words fell onto the page from above. Effortless to read because of the quality of the writing.
Captured the paradox of war, the physical difficulties, the long periods of waiting and anticipation and fear, and the bursts of violence and emotion that followed.
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