ISBN: B000K0IUMK

ISBN13: 8601422389845

The Naked and the Dead

Name: Impressive first work that joins the ranks of Gibson, Stephenson, Sterling, et al.
Item: The Fortunate Fall
Rating: 5
Author: Thriftbooks.com User

(Book #137 in the Series)

By Raphael Carter and Carter Raphael

Select Format

Select Condition

You Might Also Enjoy

from: $7.09

from: $6.89

The Young Man's Guide

William A. Alcott

from: $10.06

The Old Wives' Tale

Arnold Bennett, John Austen Arnold Bennett

from: $7.49

Essential Manners for Men: What to Do, When to Do It, and Why

Peter Post

from: $5.29

Livre des Fais d'Armes et de Chevalerie

Christine de Pizan, Christine

from: $50.10

Tobacco Road

Erskine Caldwell, Taylor Caldwell

from: $7.09

USA: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money

John Dos Passos

from: $11.59

From Here to Eternity

from: $5.19

from: $7.29

from: $6.49

from: $18.96

The Frontier in American History

Frederick Jackson Turner

from: $8.49

The Wapshot Chronicle

John Cheever

from: $4.89

A High Wind in Jamaica

Richard Hughes

from: $4.99

The Little Locksmith: A Memoir

Katharine Butler Hathaway

from: $6.39

The Ginger Man

J.P. Donleavy

from: $6.19

Zuleika Dobson

Max Beerbohm, Sir Max Beerbohm Sir

from: $5.49

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer

from: $4.89

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

from: $4.19

Book Overview

Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since become part of the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer. Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows an army platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:B000K0IUMK

ISBN13:8601422389845

Release Date:January 1948

Publisher:Rinehart & Company

Weight:1.84 lbs.

Related Subjects

Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy

Customer Reviews

6 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Write a Review

Rated 5 stars
The first book a bought is very old and precious to me. So this one for going to my boyfriend's bi

By Candice S Thompson, September 30, 2020 Verified Purchase

The book is about WW2 and the pain and suffering they endure. Read the story. Not for little ones but teenagers that are into starting a career in the Army would be good for them to see what life was like . I think today's world would be a lot easier off.

2Report

Rated 5 stars
an amazing book

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 20, 2006

this is historical fiction of ww 2 , and an amazing read, Mailer takes an immense interest in daily functions of troops , their emotional states and the general bureaucratic mundaneness of the assault on an isolated island in s pacific. He does in depth analysis of many features of us life in the 40s including the status of hispanic , jewish , southern and , bostonian soldiers. He is an intense and insightful writer. Many...

4Report

Rated 5 stars
Beautiful, sad and very lonely

By Thriftbooks.com User, August 8, 2003

Earlier this year I decided to improve the quality of the books I was reading - or, at least, to mix more "good" books in with the easy reading. The Naked and the Dead was the first of these - and what a good choice it was.Norman Mailer writes with a clarity that is often missing from other good novelists. He develops very strong characters and focusses closely on the interactions between them and their environment. Don't...

3Report

Rated 5 stars
formalized structure versus the individual

By Thriftbooks.com User, June 18, 2002

This appears to be the theme of Norman Mailer's writings. Time and again we revisit this construct (although the points of view, as in this novel, are wide-ranging and diverse): The Executioner's Song (an individual stand taken for self-interest and justice against the rigid laws and dictates of the prison and legal systems), Harlot's Ghost (which has much in common with The Naked and The Dead, portraying a member of the...

2Report

Rated 5 stars
It only feels like it goes on forever.

By Thriftbooks.com User, August 7, 2001

There must have been a glut of war novels published in the wake of World War II, so it's indicative of the high quality of Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" that its popularity and acclaim have survived when so many others have been forgotten. What makes it so powerful is its uncompromising depiction of brutal front-line combat in scenes so well written that it's easy to forgive the book for its occasionally banal...

2Report