Random House: NORMAN MAILER: Harlot's Ghost: A Novel of the CIA

Description: Random House hardcover edition of Norman Mailer's "Harlot's Ghost: A Novel of the CIA," published in 1982. Bound in blue hard boards, the book has its original dust jacket and is a FIRST EDITION---- both book and dust jacket are in near FINE condition. Title page has Professor's crimped book press---otherwise a FINE book. "Harlot's Ghost" is a novel about spies and intelligence offices. The book is a story of a crusade, one in which the distinction between truth and falsehood is as elusive as the line between fiction and fact. Norman Mailer, who was lived from 1923---2007, was born in New Jersey, of Lithuanian descent. Despite the financial hardship during the Depression, Mailer's family managed to send him to HARVARD where he majored in engineering. After WW2, Mailer moved to Greenwich Village in 1951 and wrote. Mailer's personal life was as turbulent as the times in which he lived. In 1960, at a party at his Brooklyn Heights home, he stabbed his second wife, ADELE MORALES, with a knife, but she declined to press charges. Mailer built and nurtured an image over the years as bellicose, street-wise, and high-living. He drank, fought, smoked pot, married six times and fathered nine children. Mailer's sixth wife was an ARKANSAS beauty queen, NORRIS CHURCH, 21 years younger than he. Mailer had numerous run-ins with the law, usually for being drunk, or disorderly, but was also jailed briefly during the Pentagon protests in the late 1960s. He later ran for Mayor of New York City and became involved in controversial sit-ins and protests, especially with his opposition to the Vietnam war. 1310 pages.

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