BY NORMAN MAILER
The Naked and the Dead
Barbary Shore
The Deer Park
Advertisements for Myself
Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)
The Presidential Papers
An American Dream
Cannibals and Christians
Why Are We in Vietnam?
The Deer Park—A Play
The Armies of the Night
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
Of a Fire on the Moon
The Prisoner of Sex
Maidstone
Existential Errands
St. George and the Godfather
Marilyn
The Faith of Graffiti
The Fight
Genius and Lust
The Executioner’s Song
Of Women and Their Elegance
Pieces and Pontifications
Ancient Evenings
Tough Guys Don’t Dance
Harlot’s Ghost
Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man
The Gospel According to the Son
The Time of Our Time
Why Are We at War?
The Spooky Art
Modest Gifts
The Castle in the Forest
Praise for
Harlot’s Ghost
“Mailer writes with a power and sparkle not often seen these days . . .. This is a great book, the U.S. Cold War version of War and Peace.”
—San Diego Tribune
“The kind of intensely imagined world that only the very best novelists can create or sustain.”
—The New York Review of Books
“Highly entertaining . . . Brimful of the most original anecdotes I’ve read in years.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“This is one of the best fucking novels [I’ve] ever read . . .. Whatever his faults, he is simply the best.”
—The Village Voice
“Reads like an express train . . . Never has Mailer written more swiftly and surely, more vividly.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Harlot’s Ghost is the most brilliant novel ever written about the CIA.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Harlot’s Ghost is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2007 Random House Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 1991 by Norman Mailer
All rights reserved.
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1991.
Portions of this work were originally published in Rolling Stone.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH, INC., AND FABER AND FABER LIMITED: Five lines from “The Waste Land,” which appear on pages 27 and 28 of Collected Poems 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot.
Copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Copyright © 1964, 1963 by T. S. Eliot.
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Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., and Faber and Faber Limited.
THE NEW REPUBLIC: Excerpts from “Unofficial Envoy” by Jean Daniel, December 13, 1963, and excerpts from “When Castro Heard the News” by Jean Daniel, December 7, 1963.
Copyright © 1963 by The New Republic, Inc.
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