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A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themse ...Show more
Marilyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer
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Category: Entertainment
"Genius". ("The New York Times"). In 1973, Norman Mailer published "Marilyn", his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was immediately acclaimed - and an enduring bestseller, rumoured to have sold more copies than any of hi ...Show more
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
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Category: Classics
This is the definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman Mailer. From his early 'A Credo for the Living', published in 1948, when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year ...Show more
Moonfire. The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 by Norman Mailer
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Category: Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, after a decade of tests and training, supported by a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, and with a budget of billions, the most powerful rocket ever launched brought Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael ...Show more
Norman Mailer. Bert Stern. Marilyn Monroe by Norman Mailer; Bert Stern (Photographer)
$175.00 AUD
Category: Photography
"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera," wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography, Marilyn.Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer''s original text with Bert Stern''s photographs from the ...Show more
Norman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham. the Fight by Norman Mailer; J. Michael Lennon; Neil Leifer (Photographer); Howard L. Bingham (Photographer)
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Category: Sport
On October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to confront each other in an epic match. One was Muhammad Ali, who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was volubl ...Show more
Norman Mailer: MoonFire, 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
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Category: Photography
It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy's call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of ...Show more
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History by Norman Mailer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters 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 Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the ...Show more
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
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Category: Fiction
Who was Adolf Hitler? That's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it come from? Could it happen again? Norman Mailer set ...Show more
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
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Category: American | Series: Arena Bks.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ...Show more
The Fight by Norman Mailer
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Bo ...Show more
The Fight - George Foreman v Muhammad Ali by Norman Mailer et al
$1299.00 AUD
Category: Sport