The Castle in the Forest

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780812978490 Author(s): Norman Mailer Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2007 Publisher: Random House USA Inc Pages: 496

Description: The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf from birth through adolescence and offers revealing portraits of HitlerA?s parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the twentieth century, MailerA?s novel delivers myriad twists and surprises along with characteristically astonishing insights into the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all. A‚  Praise for The Castle in the Forest A‚  A?This remarkable novel about the young Adolf Hitler, his family and their shifting circumstances, is MailerA?s most perfect apprehension of the absolutely alien. . . . Mailer doesnA?t inhabit these historical figures so much as possess them.A?A?The New York Times Book Review A‚  A?Terrifically creepy . . . an icy and convincing portrait of the dictator as a young sociopath.A?A?Entertainment Weekly A‚  A?The work of a bold and confident writer who may yet be seen as the preeminent novelist of our time . . . a source of tremendous narrative pleasure . . . Every character . . . lives and breathes.A?A?South Florida Sun-Sentinel A‚  A?Blackly hilarious, beautifully written . . . [The Castle in the Forest] has vigor, excitement, humor and vastness of spirit.A?A?The New York Observer A‚  Praise for Norman Mailer A‚  A?[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.A?A?The New York Times A‚  A?A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.A?A?The New Yorker A‚  A?Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.A?A?The Washington Post A‚  A?A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.A?A?Life A‚  A?Mailer is fierce,