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...books (on the whole) got better, book sales got worse. Sales were off as much as 15% from 1946. Norman Mailer's The Naked and The Dead topped the fiction bestseller lists for 18 weeks, but sold only 130,000 copies...
...last year for their own use. As of last week, BSD reports, TIME'S bestseller list is headed by the following four books: Churchill's Memoirs, The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene, The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer...
...NAKED AND THE DEAD (721 pp.)-Norman Mailer-Rinehart...
...Author Mailer has borrowed his method from Dos Passes, modifying and adapting it, alternating his narrative with flashbacks which he calls The Time Machine, and with choruses of the men's tediously cloacal comments. By some alchemy, his book moves and lives despite the similarity of the biographies (quarreling parents, first sexual experience, unhappy marriage, pretty good job, the draft), its too great length, and the narrow political bias of the views set forth...
...Author. Norman Mailer attended public schools in Brooklyn, at Harvard studied engineering, shortly after graduation married Beatrice Silverman (later a lieutenant in the WAVES). During the war he served in Leyte, Luzon and Japan, as a clerk, an aerial photograph expert, a rifleman in a reconnaissance platoon, a cook, a baker. Discharged in 1946, he wrote The Naked and the Dead in a year and a half...