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With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society�and his own past�takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the �momentous catastrophe� of the Kennedy assassination. All the while, Hubbard is haunted by women who were loved by both his godfather and President Kennedy. Featuring a tapestry of unforgettable characters both real and imagined, Harlot�s Ghost is a panoramic achievement in the tradition of Tolstoy, Melville, and Balzac, a triumph of Mailer�s literary prowess. Praise for Harlot�s Ghost �[Norman Mailer is] the right man to exalt the history of the CIA into something better than history.��Anthony Burgess, The Washington Post Book World �Elegantly written and filled with almost electric tension . . . When I returned from the world of Harlot�s Ghost to the present I wished to be enveloped again by Mailer�s imagination.��Robert Wilson, USA Today �Immense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant.��Salman Rushdie, The Independent on Sunday �A towering creation . . . a fiction as real and as possible as actual history.��The New York Times Praise for Norman Mailer �[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.��The New York Times �A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.��The New Yorker �Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.��The Washington Post �A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.��Life �Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.��The New York Review of Books �The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.��Chicago Tribune �Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.��The Cincinnati Post From the Trade Paperback edition.