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The Armies of the Night (1968) is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning nonfiction novel written by Norman Mailer and sub-titled History as a Novel/The Novel as History. Mailer essentially creates his own genre for the narrative, split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon. Mailer's unique rendition of the non-fiction novel was one of only a few at the time, and received the most critical attention.
The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Depending on the paper you read, 20,000 to 200,000 protestors are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is a writer named Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day’s events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mold of traditional reportage. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth.
The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Depending on the paper you read, 20,000 to 200,000 protestors are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is a writer named Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day’s events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mold of traditional reportage. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth.
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson published a First UK Edition, First Printing in London, 1968. Signet/The New American Library published a First Edition, First Printing thus in New York, 1968.
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- Title Armies of the Night
- Author Norman Mailer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 300
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin, London
- Date 1970
- ISBN 9780140029697
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Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1970. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Photographic paperback binding with white and pale blue coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the back strip. Black and white photograph of the author to the rear panel. Both a true rendering of the anti-Vietnam demonstration held in Washington in October 1967 and a fictional novel about American contemporary schizophrenia. Minor creasing of the lower book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Tanning of the text block edges and patchy tanning to the pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 216, [8 Â of which for a further title from publishing house]pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; United States; 1960s; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0140029699. ISBN/EAN: 9780140029697. Inventory No: 0128065. . 9780140029697
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