Le 21 juillet 1969 Neil Armstrong et Buzz Aldrin marchent pour la première fois sur la Lune. Norman Mailer couvre l'événement pour le magazine Life

Moonfire - La prodigieuse aventure d'Apollo 11

Amid the cactus wilds some two hudred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic of 1950s Hollywood, Desert D'Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want--and how far the are willing to go to get it. "The Deer Park" is the story of two interlacing love affairs. Sergius O'Shaugnessy is a young ex-Air Force pilot whose good looks and air of indifference launch him into the orbit of the radiant actress Lulu Meyers. Charles Eitel is a brilliant director wounded by accusations of communism--and whose liaison with the volatile Elena Esposito may supply the coup de grace to his career. As Mailer traces their couplings and uncouplings, their uneasy flirtation with success and self-extinction, he creates a legendary portrait of America's machinery of desire.

Le Parc aux Cerfs

Les vrais durs ne dansent pas

Provocateur, iconoclaste, talentueux, Norman Mailer a été l'un des enfants terribles de la littérature américaine tout comme l'observateur subversif d'un pays dont il n'a cessé de condamner les dérives. Lorsqu'il publie Les Nus et les Morts en 1948, il n'a que vingt-cinq ans mais a déjà vécu l'expérience de la guerre. Traduit en 25 langues, ce récit fulgurant de réalisme et de révolte, qui met en scène des hommes envoyés en mission derrière les lignes japonaises pour conquérir une petite île du Pacifique Sud, connaît un retentissement immédiat. Couronné par le prix Pulitzer, il marque l'entrée en littérature mais aussi dans la légende d'un des plus grands romanciers américains.

Les Nus et les Morts

A dark, brilliant novel of astonishing pitch, set in Provincetown, a "spit of shrub and dune" captured here in the rawness and melancholy of the off-season, "Tough Guys Don't Dance" is the story of Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer addicted to bourbon, cigarettes, and blonde, careless women with money. On the twenty-fourth morning after the decampment of his wife, Patty Lareine, he awakens with a hangover, considerable sexual excitement, and, on his upper arm, a red tattoo bearing a name from the past. Of the night before, he remembers practically nothing. What he soon learns is that the front passenger seat of his Porsche is soaked with blood and that in a secluded corner of his marijuana stash in a nearby woods rests a blonde head, severed at the throat.Is Madden therefore a murderer? He has no way of knowing. As in many novels of crime, the narrative centers on violence--physical, sexual, and emotional--but these elements move in their orbits through a rich constellation of character as Madden tries to reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening. In the course of this in-quiry a bizarre and vividly etched gallery of characters reappears to him as in a dream--ex-prizefighters, sexual junkies, mediums, former cons, a police chief, a world-weary former girl friend, and Mad-den's father, old now but still a Herculean figure, a practitioner of the sternest backroom ethics."Tough Guys Don't Dance" represents Mailer at the peak of his powers with a stunningly conceived novel that soon transcends its origins as a mystery to become a relentless search into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male. Rarely, as many readers will discern, have the paradoxes ofmachismo and homosexuality been so well explored.

Harlot et son fantome

MoonFire. La prodigieuse aventure d'Apollo 11

L'ancien sénateur et écrivain raté Stephen Rojack assassine sa femme Deborah et maquille le meurtre en suicide. Pour Mailer, ce récit magistral, effrayant, est l'occasion d'étudier un double rapport psychologique: l'univers introspectif de Stephen, l'histoire de sa liaison avec Deborah. Mailer s'attaque avec une puissance saisissante aux maléfices de l'imaginaire américain: alcoolisme, cancer, sexe, argent, peur.

Moonfire - La prodigieuse aventure d'Apollo 11

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