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Random House
January 2007
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Featuring: Adolf Hitler
496 pages
ISBN: 0394536495
EAN: 9780394536491
Hardcover
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No career in modern American letters is at once so
brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman
Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has
searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient
Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe,
from Henry Miller and Mohammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in
The Castle in the Forest, his first major work of fiction in
more than a decade, Mailer offers what may be his consummate
literary endeavor: He has set out to explore the evil of
Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to
be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth,
as well as Hitler’s father and mother, his sisters and
brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and
adolescence. A tapestry of unforgettable characters, The Castle in the
Forest delivers its playful twists and surprises with
astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between
good and evil that exists in us all. At its core is a
hypothesis that propels this novel and makes it a work of
stunning originality. Now, on the eve of his eighty-fourth
birthday, Norman Mailer may well be saying more than he ever
has before.
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