Norman Mailer

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer

Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assult craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on he beach at Anopopei. All over the ship, all through the convoy, there was a knowledge that in a few hours some of them were going to be dead.