{"title":"Books by Norman Mailer","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"libro-marilyn-contra","title":"Marilyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Let’s think of Marilyn, who embodied every man’s idyll with America; Marilyn Monroe, who was blonde and beautiful, with a sweet thread of voice and all the clarity of the clear gardens of American homes. She was our angel, the sweet angel of sex, and the sweetness of sex flowed from her like the resonant sound of the finest veins of a violin. On five continents, the most experienced lovers coveted her, and for her also beat the typical pimples of the teenager who had just found his first job at a gas station, since Marilyn was liberation, a true Stradivarius of sex, so dazzling, indulgent, comic, accommodating, and tender that even the most mediocre musician compensated for his lack of art with the evanescent magic of his violin.” Thus begins—and continues, without losing momentum—this unforgettable portrait of one of the great icons of the twentieth century, an extraordinary actress who shone with her own light in some milestones of American cinema such as \"Some Like It Hot,\" \"The Seven Year Itch,\" \"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,\" or \"The Misfits,\" before fading and disappearing at only 36 years old. What was initially meant to be a prologue for a large-format book with photographs of Marilyn Monroe commissioned to Norman Mailer—who was already a legend of American literature at the time—became, under the tireless and passionate lens of the master of New Journalism, one of the most intense and unrestrained biographies ever written. This was one of Mailer’s best-selling books—not without controversy, as it suggests that the actress’s death may have been a murder perpetrated from the highest spheres—which we now bring back in a new translation to celebrate the centenary of the actress’s birth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57128581628248,"sku":"LIB-MA-CO-822","price":22.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788410045392.jpg?v=1776431186"},{"product_id":"norman-mailer-moonfire","title":"Norman Mailer. MoonFire.","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy’s call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of billions, and the most powerful rocket ever launched all combined in an unprecedented event watched by millions the world over. And no one captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Norman Mailer was hired by LIFE magazine in 1969 to cover the Moon shot. He enhanced his reportage in the brilliantly crafted book, Of a Fire on the Moon, which is excerpted here. Equally adept at examining the science of space travel and the psychology of the people involved—from Saturn V rocket engineer Wernher von Braun to the crucial NASA support staff to the three astronauts—Mailer provides provocative and trenchant insights into this epoch-making event. Illustrating this volume are hundreds of photographs and maps from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections. These images document the development of the agency and the mission, life inside the command module and on the Moon’s surface, and the world’s jubilant reaction to the landing. This 50-year anniversary edition includes captions by leading Apollo 11 experts that explain the history and science behind the images, citing the mission log, publications of the day, and postflight astronaut interviews; while an evocative introduction by Colum McCann celebrates Mailer’s incomparable skill at transforming “the science of space... the weight of history... the breadth of mythology” into prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57131208278360,"sku":"9783836571166","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9783836571166.jpg?v=1776463308"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.plasticbooks.uk\/en\/collections\/libros-norman-mailer.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}