New York: Rinehart And Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of. First edition. Black boards clean and sharp, mild shelf wear to eges. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket bright, general shelf wear and age toning, nicks and chips to edges. Book is firm in binding, previous owner's name on front endpaper, bookseller's stamp on rear pastedown reads "Newbegin's San Francisco". Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 721 pages .

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Acclaimed as a successful expression of the futility of war, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead follows the story of an army platoon of foot soldiers fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei during World War II. The novel, which embodies wartime disillusionment, is partly based on Mailer’s own experiences with the 112th Cavalry in the Pacific. Through its four parts, The Naked and the Dead addresses themes of loneliness, death of fear and dying, and brotherhood. The novel is written in gritty, journalistic detail. However, this tone was dialed back as publishers persuaded Mailer to use to euphemism “fug” in lieu of the mother of all curse words — the “F” word — in his novel. The Naked and the Dead sold 200,000 copies in its first three months and was a New York Times best seller for over a year. Despite some controversy among critics, the novel remains important in American literature. The Naked and the Dead is ranked 51st on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was later adapted into a film of the same name in 1958.

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Bookseller: KULTURAs books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10818
Title: The Naked and the Dead
Author: Mailer, Norman
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Rinehart And Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1948
Keywords: Fiction. War Novels. mailre 1st edition,, Newbegin's san francisco,

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