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Loading... Harlot's Ghost: A Novelby Norman Mailer
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  avanta7 | Apr 24, 2009 |  This book is fiction but everything Mailer wrote came to pass, remember Mailer went to school and was chummy with Kennedy's Best and the Brightest. Great Read, it is big but it is a page turner. (  ) tuesdaynext | Mar 27, 2007 | A very lengthy account of a CIA operative (  ) Cecilturtle | Jun 1, 2006 | 
 Slick the book certainly is not. But a page-turner it is for a great deal of the time, and none the worse for it. The best sequences in the book, all of which involve the CIA in action, require a certain breathlessness, as the operatives spin through their madcap motions faster than the speed of thought; as with the Red Queen in Alice this is the pace they have to maintain in spyland just to stay in the same place.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394588320, Hardcover)"The most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced....Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book....There can no longer be any doubt that he possesses the largest mind and imagination at work in American literature today."CHICAGO TRIBUNE Narrated by Harry Hubbard, a second-generation CIA man, HARLOT'S GHOST looks into the depths of the American soul and the soul of Hugh Tremont Montague, code name Harlot, a CIA man obsessed. And Harry is about to discover how far the madness will go and what it means to the Agency and the country.... A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club From the Trade Paperback edition. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Subtitled "A Novel Of The CIA", the story takes place from the late 1950's through the 1970's, but it's not the typical Cold War spy story. Although there is espionage and intrigue galore, the novel focuses on the effect espionage has on those who participate: how the deceit and manipulation warps the individual and maims his soul.
The last page of the book, published in 1991, declares boldly TO BE CONTINUED. I waited for years, thinking "When do we get the rest of the story, Mr. Mailer?" Sadly, Mr. Mailer has departed this life, and Harlot's Ghost must stand alone. (