The Castle In The Forest

(Hardback)

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A bold and darkly funny novel about the family and early life of Adolf Hitler

Who was Adolf Hitler It's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred Where did it come from Could it happen again

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'Mailer did Jesus in THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON; now he plumbs the psyche of history's most demonic figure in this chilling fictional chronicle of Hitler's boyhood a somber, compelling portrait of a monstrous soul' PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY Starred review

'The premise would be intriguing whoever the author, but with Mailer at the helm it promises to be enthralling' HERALD Books for 2007

'Fearless and fanciful' OBSERVER Books for 2007

Mailer has become a contemporary figure of myth, a great American icon who is venerated and reviled but impossible to ignore OBSERVER

Having tackled historical figures as diverse as Jesus Christ, Lee Harvey Oswald, executed killer Gary Gilmore and Marilyn Monroe, Mailer now seems ready to approach the most ineffably compelling character of them all [A] series of eerily evocative set-pieces that pulsate with demonic prescience and Freudian menace perhaps, though, the strength of Mailer s artistry argues against his philosophising. However much he may expostulate about the nature of evil and the workings of the supernatural, the author s fictional images are what endure, none more than the picture of that lonely little Austrian boy shouting at the trees in the belief that he will one day be able to make the world do his bidding. We do not need a devil to tell us that, for a while at least, he turned out to be dead right SUNDAY TIM

Author Bio

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 and published his first book,THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, in 1948. THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1969; Mailer received another Pulitzer in 1980 for THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG. He has written thirty books.

Author Location: New York

Armies of the Night/The Executioner's Song/The Naked and the Dead/Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man/Oswald's Tale/Harlot's Ghost/The Gospel According to the Son (0 349 11014 X)