ANCIENT EVENINGS
by Mailer, Norman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Ancient Evenings is a novel by Norman Mailer. It deals with the lives of two protagonists, one young, one old, in a very alien ancient Egypt marked by journeys by the dead, reincarnation, and violent and hyper-sexual gods and mortals in a complex combination of historical fiction, allegory, poetic flight, confession and spiritual meditation. Crossing three millennia to Pharaonic Egypt, this tale returns to that land's essences - the war, magic, gods, death and reincarnations, the lusts, ambitions, jealousies, and betrayals, sadistically admiring all sorts of violence and atrocity, both in sarcasm and reality.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23675
- Title
- ANCIENT EVENINGS
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction, Literature;, Fiction;, Novel, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian
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