Harlots Ghost, Norman Mailer
Harlots Ghost, Norman Mailer
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Harlot's Ghost

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 47 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/13/2016

Synopsis

With 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, Harlot’s Ghost is a panoramic achievement in the tradition of Tolstoy, Melville, and Balzac, a triumph of Mailer’s literary prowess.

About Norman Mailer

Born in Long Branch, NJ, in 1923, and raised in Brooklyn, Norman Mailer was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the 20th century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. The Castle in the Forest, his last novel, was his eleventh New York Times bestseller. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, The Armies of the Night, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for The Executioner’s Song 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on February 28, 2021

Harlot’s Ghost begins like a tale of the haunted house… The sunless sky weighs over us, and a week can go by when we do not speak. That is loneliness kin to the despair of a convivial drinker who has not poured a glass for days. It is then that ghosts begin to visit the Keep. Our fine dwelling is hos......more

Goodreads review by Lesley on December 22, 2007

Mailer, check. Too long, check. Creaky structure, check. Weird pseudo-psycho theorizing, check. Obsession with buggery, check. Tin ear for female characters, check. BRILLIANT, check. Yes, brilliant. Mailer's CIA novel, through to the Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile crisis, and Kennedy assassination. 1200 pages,......more

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey) on February 27, 2011

This post-modern novel by Mailer is inarguably the most informed novel of the CIA. This is not callow, veneered, cinema-informed CIA, or any of the "tell-all" non-fiction embellishments of CIA activity. This is a psychological study of the necessary duality of agents, teased from the central soul of......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on May 07, 2023

Probably my favorite Mailer novel. Moves quickly for a 1200 page novel. Meticulously detailed and crafted. Page turning indeed!......more

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