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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History Paperback - 1995
by Norman Mailer
About this book
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.
Summary
One of the first examples of "new journalism" daringly combines reportage with a novelistic style and garnered Mailer his first Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award in 1968.
First line
From the outset, let us bring you news of your protagonist.
First Edition Identification
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 The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
- Author Norman Mailer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York
- Date January 1, 1995
- ISBN 9780452272798 / 0452272793
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.33 x 0.71 in (20.29 x 13.54 x 1.80 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Public opinion, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 - Public
- Dewey Decimal Code 818.540
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 11/23/2007, Page 75
- New York Times Book Review, 08/24/2008, Page 27
- People Weekly, 11/26/2007, Page 182
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