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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Harlot’s Ghost Information
328 words, approx. 1 pages
 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 Independent - London ghosts
01/18/1997: 2,902 words, approx. 10 pages "Our Christ is not a dead Christ," my father repeated. He was objecting to the Catholic cult of the crucifix. "The cross is an empty cross. Our Lord is all powerful." So he believed in the charismatic gifts, and above all in healing. But... summary from source:
The American Organist The Ghost
10/01/2007: 1,291 words, approx. 4 pages "We've got skyscrapers tall as the sky, more than a hunart stories high," Jeff told his cousins Carol and Jimmy. "And sometimes the traffic's so bad you can't even get to town!" Jeff was still not happy at being left with Aunt Tia in... summary from source:
 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... summary from source:
AP News Norman Mailer dead at age 84
11/10/2007: 1,373 words, approx. 5 pagesNorman 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...
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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