The Naked and the Dead is a novel written by Norman Mailer. Released in 1948, it is Mailer's debut novel and tells of the march of a group of Marines in the Pacific Front of World War II.
Characters[]
- Hennessey
- Woodrow Wilson
- Julio Martinez
- Sam Croft
- Red Valsen
- Lieutenant Robert Hearn
- General Edward Cummings
- Roy Gallagher
- Roth
- Joey Goldstein
- William Brown
- Stanley
- Toglio
- Casimir "Polack" Czienwicz
- Oscar Ridges
- Buddy Wyman
- Steven Minetta
- Dalleson
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Publisher's summary[]
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.
Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien | 1990 | A collection of short stories about war with similar themes |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | A novel about World War II with similar themes |
| The Short-Timers | Gustav Hasford | 1979 | A novel about war with similar themes |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 | A novel about World War II with similar themes |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 1973 | A novel about World War II with similar themes |
Sources[]
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads