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The Time of Our Time (Signed)
by Mailer, Norman
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/fine
- Seller
-
Avon, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. First edition, first printing of this massive 1,286 pp novel by the author of The Deer Park and The Prisoner of SEx. Slight handling wear to page edges else a near fine copy in fine unclipped dustwrapper. This is one of the specially SIGNED first editions (so stated on the cover of the dustwrapper). A large and heavy book. Additional postage may apply.
Synopsis
Norman Mailer's The Time of our Time is a giant retrospective, a rich, boisterous portrait of our times seen through the fiction and reportage of one of America's greatest writers. Mailer selected and edited the contents of this work to create an ongoing narrative of events large and small that have shaped America over the last fifty years. Included are passages from The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, An American Dream, The Armies of the Night, The Executioner's Song, Ancient Evenings, and Harlot's Ghost as well as portraits of Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Madonna, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon as they appeared in some of his best magazine pieces. How readable is the result! It is as if one is being drawn into a fabulous novel with extraordinary characters, real and fictional, who appear and reappear through the years until a vast mural of America as a nation comes into focus, full of follies and blunders, surprisingly elegant and often crazy-tragic in its losses and large in its triumphs. (Goodreads)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Derringer Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21906
- Title
- The Time of Our Time (Signed)
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Literature, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature / First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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All books returnable for full refund within two weeks of delivery.
About the Seller
Derringer Books
Biblio member since 2005
Avon, Connecticut
About Derringer Books
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- Fine
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