{"product_id":"harlots-ghost-paperback","title":"Harlot's Ghost - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNorman Mailer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society--and his own past--takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the \"momentous catastrophe\" of the Kennedy assassination. All the while, Hubbard is haunted by women who were loved by both his godfather and President Kennedy. Featuring a tapestry of unforgettable characters both real and imagined, \u003ci\u003eHarlot's Ghost \u003c\/i\u003eis a panoramic achievement in the tradition of Tolstoy, Melville, and Balzac, a triumph of Mailer's literary prowess. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eHarlot's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \" Norman Mailer is] the right man to exalt the history of the CIA into something better than history.\"\u003cb\u003e--Anthony Burgess, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Elegantly written and filled with almost electric tension . . . When I returned from the world of \u003ci\u003eHarlot's Ghost \u003c\/i\u003eto the present I wished to be enveloped again by Mailer's imagination.\"\u003cb\u003e--Robert Wilson, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Immense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant.\"\u003cb\u003e--Salman Rushdie, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A towering creation . . . a fiction as real and as possible as actual history.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for Norman Mailer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \" Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The largest mind and imagination  in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Cincinnati Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced....Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book....There can no longer be any doubt that he possesses the largest mind and imagination at work in American literature today.\u003cbr\u003eCHICAGO TRIBUNE\u003cbr\u003eNarrated by Harry Hubbard, a second-generation CIA man, HARLOT'S GHOST looks into the depths of the American soul and the soul of Hugh Tremont Montague, code name Harlot, a CIA man obsessed. And Harry is about to discover how far the madness will go and what it means to the Agency and the country....\u003cbr\u003eA Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, \u003cb\u003eNorman Mailer\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. \u003ci\u003eThe Castle in the Forest, \u003c\/i\u003e his last novel, was his eleventh \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Naked and the Dead, \u003c\/i\u003ehas never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night, \u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for \u003ci\u003eThe Executioner's Song\u003c\/i\u003e and is the only person to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Mr. Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.98 x 8.24 x 5.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 23, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227302215929,"sku":"9780345379658","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/V3puOEdsblA3NjBzZU5kclA2S2xsZz09.webp?v=1768279354","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/harlots-ghost-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}