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Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer

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. Featuring a tapestry of unforgettable characters both real and imagined, Harlot's Ghost is a panoramic achievement in the tradition of Tolstoy, Melville, and Balzac, a triumph of Mailer's literary prowess.

Praise for Harlot's Ghost

Norman Mailer is] the right man to exalt the history of the CIA into something better than history.--Anthony Burgess, The Washington Post Book World

Elegantly written and filled with almost electric tension . . . When I returned from the world of Harlot's Ghost to the present I wished to be enveloped again by Mailer's imagination.--Robert Wilson, USA Today

Immense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant.--Salman Rushdie, The Independent on Sunday

A towering creation . . . a fiction as real and as possible as actual history.--The New York Times

Praise for Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.--The New York Times

A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.--The New Yorker

Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.--The Washington Post

A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.--Life

Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.--The New York Review of Books

The largest mind and imagination in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.--Chicago Tribune

Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.--The Cincinnati Post
Born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Norman Mailer was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. The Castle in the Forest, his last novel, was his eleventh New York Times bestseller. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, The Armies of the Night, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for The Executioner's Song and is the only person to date to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Norman Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.
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ISBN 13 9780345377555
ISBN 10 0345377559
Title Harlot's Ghost
Author Norman Mailer
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Ballantine Books
Year published 1992-03-01
Number of pages 0
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