A Special Message to Subscribers from Norman Mailer
Mailer's one-page preface (dated 1978) to the Franklin Library's leather-bound 30th-anniversary edition of The Naked and the Dead, reflecting on the confidence of the twenty-five-year-old who wrote it.
“A Special Message to Subscribers from Norman Mailer,” a one-page preface (dated 1978) to the Franklin Library’s leather-bound, Alan E. Cober-illustrated edition of The Naked and the Dead, issued on the novel’s thirtieth anniversary at $75 and signed by Mailer. In 306 words he ponders the confidence of the twenty-five-year-old who wrote the book.