Harlot's Ghost: A Novel

Harlot's Ghost: A Novel

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 societyâ€”and his own pastâ€”takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the â€œmomentous catastropheâ€ 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, Harlotâ€™s Ghost is a panoramic achievement in the tradition of Tolstoy, Melville, and Balzac, a triumph of Mailerâ€™s literary prowess.
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Praise for Harlotâ€™s Ghost
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â€œ[Norman Mailer is] the right man to exalt the history of the CIA into something better than history.â€â€”Anthony Burgess, The Washington Post Book World
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â€œElegantly written and filled with almost electric tension . . . When I returned from the world of Harlotâ€™s Ghost to the present I wished to be enveloped again by Mailerâ€™s imagination.â€â€”Robert Wilson, USA Today
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â€œImmense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant.â€â€”Salman Rushdie, The Independent on Sunday
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â€œA towering creation . . . a fiction as real and as possible as actual history.â€â€”The New York Times
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Praise for Norman Mailer
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â€œ[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.â€â€”The New York Times
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â€œA writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.â€â€”The New Yorker
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â€œMailer is indispensable, an American treasure.â€â€”The Washington Post
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â€œA devastatingly alive and original creative mind.â€â€”Life
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â€œMailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.â€â€”The New York Review of Books
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â€œThe 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.â€â€”Chicago Tribune
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â€œMailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.â€â€”The Cincinnati Post
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780345379658
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1992-09-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345379658

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780345379658
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1992-09-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345379658

Harlot's Ghost: A Novel

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