Armies of the Night

Resumen del libro

October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is Norman Mailer.

From his own singular participation in the day's events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mould of traditional reportage. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth. The Armies of the Night uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties' tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak.
One of the first examples of "new journalism" daringly combines reportage with a novelistic style and garnered Mailer his first Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award in 1968.

Biografía del autor

Norman Mailer (1923x{0026} x02013;2007) fue uno de los escritores más grandes e influyentes del siglo XX, así como una de las figuras literarias más renombradas y controvertidas de Estados Unidos. El exitoso autor de una docena de novelas y 20 obras de no ficción, también escribió piezas de teatro, guiones cinematográficos, miniseries de televisión, cientos de ensayos, dos libros de poesía y una colección de cuentos. Dos veces ganador del premio Pulitzer, vivió en Brooklyn, Nueva York, y en Provincetown, Massachusetts.