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 Harlot's Ghost (1991), a fictional 1300-page chronicle of the CIA by Norman Mailer, was considered by the author to be one of his best novels. The characters are a mixture of real people and fictional figures; the logic of this mix is explained in...




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 The New York Observer
The Courage to Be Wrong
11/13/2007: 975 words, approx. 3 pages Several years ago I wrote a snotty essay, “The Smiley Face at the End of the Tunnel,” which posited that very good but not great writers of secular disposition often produce an uncommonly “spiritual” novel at the end of their lives. It’s not that...
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Norman Mailer dead at age 84
11/10/2007: 1,373 words, approx. 5 pages Norman Mailer, the pugnacious prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executioner's Song," has died at the age of 84.Mailer died Saturday of acute renal failure...
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Pulitzer winner Norman Mailer dead at 84
11/11/2007: 1,373 words, approx. 5 pages Norman Mailer, the pugnacious prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executioner's Song," has died at the age of 84.Mailer died Saturday of acute renal failure...
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 The New York Observer
Satan, Meet Norman
1/21/2007: 2,220 words, approx. 7 pages The Castle in the Forest, by Norman Mailer. Random House, 477 pages, $27.95. Norman Mailer’s first novel in over 10 years has a couple of big surprises right off the bat. One is physical, the other spiritual. As to the first, the welterweight...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by William H. Pritchard
4,064 words, approx. 14 pages
 In the following review, Pritchard offers favorable assessment of Harlot's Ghost, praising the admirable ambition of the work despite Mailer's characteristic narrative style that ranges from "the sublime to the ridiculous."


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