The Naked and the Dead.
with great accuracy and power
The Naked and the Dead.
MAILER, Norman.
Item Number: 1603
New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948.
First edition of the author’s first book, one of the great novels of World War II, and one of the top hundred classics of the last century. Thick octavo. Some of the usual rubbing to the boards, else very good in a very good first issue dust jacket. A presentable copy of this highspot.
The Naked and the Dead follows the story of an army platoon of foot soldiers fighting for the Japanese island of Anopopei. "The best novel to come out of the . . . war, perhaps the best book to come out of any war" (San Francisco Chronicle). "The narrative presents, with great accuracy and power, the agony of the American troops in the Pacific campaign It remains Mailer’s best, and certainly the best war novel to emerge from the United States" (Burgess, 42-43).
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